A gunman has been conjecture dead by French police after killing three people and shoot three others in a series of events that ended in a hostage place in a supermarket.
French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb confirmed Friday afternoon that the attacker was 26, had undertook alone and was known to authorities for petty crime and possession of drugs.
The strike started at 10.30 a.m. local time (5.30 a.m. ET) when the perpetrator killed one child with a shot to the head and injured another while stealing a car virtually the town of Carcassonne in south France, Collomb said.
The gunman then administer at a group of police officers, injuring one, before entering the Super U supermarket in the close town of Trebes at approximately 11 a.m., where he took several pawns.
Collomb said that security forces shot the gunman lifeless after storming the supermarket. Two people were killed in the store, he suggested.
The minister praised a lieutenant-colonel in the national gendarmerie for an “act of heroism” in exchanging places with a prisoner inside the supermarket, NBC News reported.
The Islamic State militant order (ISIS) later claimed responsibility for the attack, but provided no evidence, Reuters commanded.
Speaking in Brussels while the situation was ongoing, French President Emmanuel Macron phrased the situation appeared to be of a terrorist nature and that he was to return to Paris this afternoon.
French media researched that the gunman had claimed allegiance to ISIS.
– Graham Smith presented to this report.