"Islamic State claims deadly French supermarket siege
TREBES: A gunman claiming allegiance to the Islamic State militant group killed three people in a shooting spree and supermarket hostage siege in southwest France on Friday (Mar 23) before anti-terror police shot him dead.
Five people were also shot and wounded in France's first major militant attack since October, including a heroic policeman who offered to take the place of hostages being held at the supermarket.
"Our country has suffered an Islamist terrorist attack," President Emmanuel Macron said in a televised address following the rampage in the medieval town of Carcassonne and nearby Trebes.
The Islamic State militant group claimed the attack was in response to its call to target Western enemies - as is customary when the assailant has pledged allegiance to the militants.
The shootings come as France remains on high alert following a string of deadly attacks that have killed more than 240 people since 2015.
Top anti-terror prosecutor Francois Molins named the gunman as Radouane Lakdim, a 25-year-old who had convictions for carrying a banned weapon and for drug use."
I m back! So ISIS will claim this one is done by them. It must b hard on them NOT to hv much publicity as they crave it!!
RIP to the dead.
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