French police in standoff with suspected shooter
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In a tense, daylong standoff, French riot police surrounded a building Wednesday in southwest France, demanding the surrender of a gunman whom they say boasted of shooting seven victims in an al-Qaeda-linked terror spree.
Hundreds of police cordoned off the streets around an apartment complex in the city of Toulouse after a pre-dawn raid to arrest the suspect, a 24-year-old Frenchman of Algerian descent, erupted into a firefight. Three police were wounded and negotiations with the suspect dragged on for hours. (AP)
