A French cop who swapped himself for a hostage in a market attack on Friday has kicked the bucket, authorities say.
Lt-Col Arnaud Beltrame, 45, "fell as a hero" and demonstrated "uncommon valor", French President Emmanuel Macron said.
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The gendarme conveyed a conclusion to a shooter's shooting binge that murdered three in southern France.
The radical Islamist shooter, 25-year-old Redouane Lakdim, was shot dead as police conveyed the attack to an end.
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Reporting the cop's demise on Twitter, Interior Minister Gérard Collomb stated: "He kicked the bucket for his nation. France will always remember his chivalry, his boldness, his forfeit."
The general store was closed by police as the attack unfurled
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Prior, Mr Macron had uncovered that Lt-Col Beltrame had endured genuine wounds and was battling for his life in hospital.
Sixteen individuals were harmed, two truly, in what Mr Macron called a demonstration of "Islamist fear based oppression".
Lakdim was said to have requested the arrival of Salah Abdeslam, the most vital surviving suspect in the 13 November 2015 assaults in Paris, which executed 130 individuals.
One individual - accepted to be Lakdim's accomplice - has been captured regarding the shootings.
What hinted at Friday's attack?
The savagery started on Friday morning in Carcassonne, where Lakdim seized an auto. He murdered a traveler - whose body was later discovered covered up in a hedge - and harmed the driver.
He at that point shot at a gathering of policemen who were out running, injuring one of them.
Media captionEye-witness says French prisoner taker pursued him
Lakdim is then accepted to have driven a short separation to the residential area of Trèbes, where he raged into the Super-U grocery store, yelling, "I am a fighter of Daesh [Islamic State]!"
He executed two individuals - a client and a store specialist - before seizing others as prisoners.
When was the officer injured?
Mr Collomb told journalists on Friday that cops had figured out how to get a few people out of the grocery store yet the shooter had kept one lady down as a human shield.
It was now, he stated, that Lt-Col Beltrame had volunteered to swap himself for her.
As he did as such, he exited his cell phone on a table with an open line so police outside could screen the circumstance.
At the point when police heard discharges, a strategic group raged the general store. The shooter was slaughtered yet Lt-Col Beltrame was harmed.
What do we think about Redouane Lakdim?
Lakdim, was conceived in April 1992 in Morocco and had French nationality. He was known to French knowledge administrations.
Prosecutor Francois Molins said he had been on a fanatic watch-list because of "his radicalisation and his connections with the Salafist development", a hardline branch of Sunni Islam. In any case, resulting examinations by knowledge administrations had not turned up any signs he would act, he said.
In 2011 Lakdim was discovered blameworthy of conveying a restricted weapon and in 2015 he was indicted for sedate utilize and rejecting a court arrange, Mr Molins said.
Prior, Mr Collomb said that however Lakdim had been referred to experts as an insignificant criminal, they "didn't think he had been radicalized".
Lakdim lived in a flat in Carcassonne with his folks and a few sisters. A neighbor saw him taking one of his sisters to class on Friday morning.
The family's flat was attacked by police on Friday evening.