French police searching for a gunman
who shot dead four people at a Jewish school in Toulouse have launched a raid in
the north of the city.Two police officers have been injured in the operation, which is reported to
have begun before dawn and is ongoing.A 24-year-old man is reported to be holed up inside the bungalow where the
operation is taking place.French Interior Minister Claude Gueant is reported to be at the scene of the
raid in the Croix-Daurade district.A huge manhunt has been under way in France amid fears the killer may strike
again.
The funerals of the rabbi and three children killed in Monday's attack are
due in Jerusalem in the coming hours.Israeli police said they expected thousands of people to attend.Also on Wednesday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to attend a memorial
service for three soldiers killed in two attacks last week which police have
linked to the Toulouse shootings.The same gun and the same scooter were used in all the attacks. All three soldiers killed were of North African descent. Another soldier from the French overseas region of Guadeloupe was left critically ill.
The attacker gunned down Jonathan Sandler, a 30-year-old rabbi and teacher of religion, his two young sons Arieh and Gabriel and then - at point blank range - the head teacher's daughter, seven-year-old Myriam Monsonego, in Monday's attack at a Jewish school in Toulouse.
Their bodies were carried out of Ozar Hatorah school on Tuesday in two black hearses and taken to a nearby airport, reported the Agence France-Presse news agency.
A military jet then flew them to Paris, from where they were placed on a commercial flight to Tel Aviv, AFP said. They have now arrived in Israel.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe was to accompany the relatives of the dead to the funerals in Jerusalem.
Mr Sarkozy and the Socialist presidential candidate Francois Hollande will attend the memorial service in Montauban for the three soldiers killed in last week's attacks.
Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right Front National, will also be at the service. She is often associated with the more controversial debates on immigration and her presence will be closely observed in light of recent events, reports the BBC's Christian Fraser in Toulouse.

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