UPDATE: Three explosions were heard near the apartment just before midnight local time. An Interior Ministry spokesman says the blasts were designed to intimidate the suspect.
Police in France engaged in a standoff with a man believed to be the gunman who opened fire in a Jewish school in Toulouse, killing three children and a rabbi. The suspect is barricaded in an apartment building in Toulouse.
FOX News Radio’s Alastair Wanklyn reports from the scene in Toulouse:
I can see police officers in the street outside the apartment building.
(Translator) “Some exchange of fire took place, I add that the brother of the alleged suspect was also taken in for questioning.”
France’s Interior Minister speaking through a translator.
The gunman, a 24-year-old French Muslim who says he’s avenging injustices for Afghans and Palestinians. One report from Afghanistan says he might have been jailed there once as a Taliban bomber.
Here in Toulouse, people say they are relieved the killer may now be pinned down.
In Toulouse, France, Alastair Wanklyn, FOX News Radio.
