France has witnessed another terror attack in Trebes reporting the death of 1person.Published on : Friday, March 23, 2018
France has witnessed another terror attack in Trebes reporting the death of 1person.
There are two victims in a hostage-taking at a supermarket. The condition of the two victims was not immediately known.
The hostage-taker has claimed the allegiance to the Islamic State terror outfit, had earlier shot at a police officer.
Jean-Valery Lettermann, the regional police chief said that they unfortunately presume one person has been killed, but we cannot bring a doctor on site to check.
Mayor Eric Ménassi told that the hostage-taker was now alone with one police officer in the supermarket and all other hostages had been freed. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe described the situation, which investigators are treating as terrorism, as very serious and Interior Minister Gerard Collomb is heading to the incident spot. The hostage-taker at the supermarket has claimed adherence to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terror group.
The UNSA police union also said on the social media a police operation was underway after an individual had earlier shot at four officers in the Carcassone region, injuring one of them. A source at the Paris prosecutor’s office said counter-terrorism prosecutors were investigating the hostage-taking.
The local authorities tweeted that the area was out-of-bounds to the public. It was not clear whether the two incidents were linked. If the link to ISIS is confirmed, the attack would be the first major incident since the election of centrist President Emmanuel Macron in May last year.
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe says that the hostage situation is ongoing and the operation is not over.
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