TREBES, France (Reuters) - French officials hailed the bravery of a gendarme who was severely wounded after swapping himself for a hostage held by a gunman during a deadly siege of a supermarket. He is fighting for his life," President Emmanuel Macron said in an address to the nation. The sound of that shooting prompted commando units to storm the building, when they killed the gunman. While inside the supermarket, the gendarme had placed his mobile phone, with an open line, on a table near himself and the assailant, Collomb said. "A mass killing took place in a supermarket.

Source: The Star March 23, 2018 19:52 UTC