publish time

23/03/2018

author name Arab Times

publish time

23/03/2018

Police officers detain a youth who was riding a scooter outside a hostage-taking situation at a kosher market in Paris -AP
Beirut, March 23, 2018 (AFP) -The Islamic State jihadist group claimed responsibility for a shooting spree and hostage siege on Friday in southern France, its propaganda agency said."The person who carried out the attack in Trebes in southern France is a soldier of the Islamic State and he carried out the operation in response to a call to target states" of the anti-IS international coalition, the Amaq agency said in a statement on social messenging app Telegram.At least three people were killed in a shooting spree and hostage siege in southern France, after a gunman carried out three separate attacks in the medieval town of Carcassonne and nearby Trebes.