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Toulouse, France (CNN) -- Dozens of police officers surrounded a house near Toulouse early Wednesday morning where the suspect in the Jewish school shooting was reportedly located.
Soon after special operations police mounted their raid at 3 a.m. (10 p.m. ET Tuesday), shots rang out from inside, wounding two officers, CNN affiliate BFM TV.
As the standoff entered its third hour, the 24-year-old suspect showed no signs of surrendering. Police tried to get the suspect's mother to talk to him, but he refused, the French interior minister told reporters.
His brother is also said to be inside the house in the Croix-Daurade district of Toulouse.
'High level of anti-Semitism' in France
According to the interior minister, the suspect is a French national of Algerian origin who spent considerable time in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Grief on public display in Toulouse
The shooting at the school, Ozar Hatorah, on Monday was the third fatal attack on minorities in southwest France in less than two weeks.
A man wearing a motorcycle helmet and driving a motor scooter pulled up in front of the school and shot a teacher and three children -- two of them his own young sons.
Following the shootings, France put the region on scarlet alert, the highest level in the country, and launched an intense manhunt for the suspect. Wednesday night, police located the person believed to be responsible for the school shooting and for the two earlier attacks -- leading to the raid at the house, BFM said.
Meanwhile, the bodies of the four victims arrived in Israel where they will be buried in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning.
Soon after special operations police mounted their raid at 3 a.m. (10 p.m. ET Tuesday), shots rang out from inside, wounding two officers, CNN affiliate BFM TV.
As the standoff entered its third hour, the 24-year-old suspect showed no signs of surrendering. Police tried to get the suspect's mother to talk to him, but he refused, the French interior minister told reporters.
His brother is also said to be inside the house in the Croix-Daurade district of Toulouse.
'High level of anti-Semitism' in France
According to the interior minister, the suspect is a French national of Algerian origin who spent considerable time in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Grief on public display in Toulouse
The shooting at the school, Ozar Hatorah, on Monday was the third fatal attack on minorities in southwest France in less than two weeks.
A man wearing a motorcycle helmet and driving a motor scooter pulled up in front of the school and shot a teacher and three children -- two of them his own young sons.
Following the shootings, France put the region on scarlet alert, the highest level in the country, and launched an intense manhunt for the suspect. Wednesday night, police located the person believed to be responsible for the school shooting and for the two earlier attacks -- leading to the raid at the house, BFM said.
Meanwhile, the bodies of the four victims arrived in Israel where they will be buried in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning.
