21:30, 24-Mar-2018
France Attack: Second person arrested over Friday supermarket attack
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French police have reportedly arrested a second person overnight believed to be linked to Friday's attack in southwestern France. The man is said to be a minor born in 2000 who is a friend of the gunman.
On Friday, Police arrested a woman connected to the attacker. The gunman, who was initially believed to have acted alone, held up a car, fired at police and seized hostages in a supermarket.
Four people were killed in the supermarket during the shooting and hostage siege, including a police officer, who swapped himself with a hostage. French President Emmanuel Macron called it an act of "Islamist terrorism".