A hostage taker in southern France has asked for the release of Paris November 2015 attacker Salah Abdeslam, BFM TV says, citing an anonymous source.
Abdeslam is the prime surviving suspect in the attacks in Paris that killed 130 people.
French police say two people have been killed, about a dozen wounded in the supermarket hostage-taking in the southwest town of Trebes, the Associated Press reports.
"All the information we have as I speak lead us to think that this would be a terrorist act," Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said.
BFM TV reported that the hostage-taker has claimed allegiance to Islamic State.
The town's mayor Eric Menassi also told LCI TV that the man had entered the shop screaming "Allahu Akbar (God is greatest), I'll kill you all".
Australian Associated Press
