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| Police officers gather at the site of a shooting in Jewish school in the southwestern French city of Toulouse on Monday morning.(Source: www.news.cn) |
TOULOUSE, France, March 21 (Xinhua) -- French police has surrounded the hideout of the main suspect in the series of deadly shootings in Toulouse and nearby Montauban, officials said Wednesday morning.
The 24-year-old male suspect fired at police from a house where he was holing up alone and one officer was hurt during the exchange of gunshots, media reports said.
Interior Minister Claude Glean told reporters at the scene that the suspect's brother has been arrested.
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PARIS, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Three children and an adult were killed in a shooting outside a Jewish school in the southwestern French city of Toulouse on Monday morning, local media reported, raising the toll up from three.
The shooting, the third of such kind in the region in a week, took place outside the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school at around 8 a.m. local time, just as students were arriving for school. Full story
