Police are seen at the scene of a hostage situation in a supermarket in Trebes, Aude, France March 23, 2018 in this picture obtained from a social media video. LA VIE A TREBES/via REUTERS
PARIS - 23 March 2018: French authorities said that a police operation is taking place in a small town in southern France after a police officer was shot and wounded.
Nation police said that a suspect has been surrounded at a supermarket in the town of Trebes, south of Toulouse, and might have taken hostages, Fox News reported on Friday.
The French Interior Ministry said on its Twitter account that police and rescue operations are the priority.
On the other hand, authorities in the Aude region are warning people to avoid the area around the supermarket.
There are two victims in a hostage taking at a supermarket in Trebes southern France, the mayor of the town said on Friday as La Depeche du midi newspaper reported one person was dead.
The condition of the two victims was not immediately known.
Mayor Eric Ménassi told BFM TV that the hostage taker was now alone with one police officer in the supermarket and all other hostages had been freed.
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe described the situation, which investigators are treating as terrorism, as "very serious" and Interior Minister Gerard Collomb is heading to the site, his ministry said.
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