CBS NEWS - Police surrounded a supermarket in southern France on Friday as a deadly hostage-taking situation played out after the shooting of a police officer. At least one witness told French media that a man holding people in the store claimed he was loyal to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
BFMTV said four French police from Marseilles first came under fire from at least one gunman in a vehicle in the town of Carcassone. The car then proceeded several miles east to Trebes, where a suspect went into a "Super U" store, taking a number of shoppers hostage.
Not long after, however, officials told French television that most, if not all of the civilians who had been trapped inside the store were out safely. The gunman was said to be inside the store, possibly along with a police officer.
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said the information available suggested it "seems to be a terrorist act."
The officer shot in Carcassone was critically wounded, but Yves Lefebvre of the French police union told the Associated Press that the gunman shot and killed one person as he entered the supermarket, and left one other person in life-threatening condition.
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