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Police arrest second person linked to French attack - source

France supermarket hostage crisis
A general view shows gendarmes and police officers at a supermarket after a hostage situation in Trebes, France, on March 23, 2018. Photo: Reuters

Police arrested a second person overnight believed to be linked to an attack in southwestern France on Friday that led to the death of four people, a judicial source said today.

Another source said the man, a minor born in 2000, was a friend of the gunman, Redouane Lakdim, 25.

Read more: French police 'hero' dies of wounds

Police arrested a woman connected to the attacker on Friday, a French prosecutor said.

Lakdim, who was initially believed to have acted alone, held up a car, fired on police and seized hostages in a supermarket on Friday, in what President Emmanuel Macron called an act of "Islamist terrorism".

A gendarme who voluntarily took the place of a hostage during the siege has died, France said earlier today.

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Police arrest second person linked to French attack - source

France supermarket hostage crisis
A general view shows gendarmes and police officers at a supermarket after a hostage situation in Trebes, France, on March 23, 2018. Photo: Reuters

Police arrested a second person overnight believed to be linked to an attack in southwestern France on Friday that led to the death of four people, a judicial source said today.

Another source said the man, a minor born in 2000, was a friend of the gunman, Redouane Lakdim, 25.

Read more: French police 'hero' dies of wounds

Police arrested a woman connected to the attacker on Friday, a French prosecutor said.

Lakdim, who was initially believed to have acted alone, held up a car, fired on police and seized hostages in a supermarket on Friday, in what President Emmanuel Macron called an act of "Islamist terrorism".

A gendarme who voluntarily took the place of a hostage during the siege has died, France said earlier today.

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