French police and firefighters secure the entrance of Trebes, southern France, where an armed man took hostages in a supermarket, Friday, March 23, 2018. French national police say two people have been killed and about a dozen wounded in a shooting and hostage-taking in a super market in southern France.(AP Photo/Jean-Paul Bonincontro)
PARIS: French investigators suspect the gunman who took people hostage at a supermarket on Friday is a Moroccan man who had been flagged as a potential extremist, a security source said.
At least two people are believed to have been killed in the hostage-taking in the southwestern town of Trebes, with prosecutors saying the gunman claimed allegiance to the Islamic State group. - AFP
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