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07.38 The suspect's reported previous arrest in Afghanistan related to a common law matter, police sources told AFP.

The suspect had previously been arrested in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, police said. A source close to the investigation told AFP that the 24-year-old, a French citizen of North African descent who is barricaded inside a Toulouse building, had once been arrested on a matter of common law in Afghanistan.

 
07.34 More detail is emerging about the police investigation which led officers to the suspect's address. AFP reports:

One line of the police inquiry was into an Internet advert to sell a motorbike placed by the scooter-riding killer's first victim, a 30-year-old soldier in the southwestern city of Toulouse. A message sent from the suspect's brother's IP addess was used to set up an appointment to inspect the bike, an appointmnet at which the paratrooper was subsequently killed, the source said.
The suspect's brother has been detained as police in an ongoing operation surrounded a Toulouse house where the man believed to be behind the killing was holed up. Police are hunting a gunman who carried out three shooting sprees. In each one he arrived and escaped on a scooter. The police source also said officers visited motorbike sales outlets in the region and were told in one that a man had recently asked how to turn off the tracking device on scooters that enabled them to be located if stolen.
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  _{French police have surrounded the suspected gunman's home}
07.28 AFP reports that a police source said the suspected gunman was previously arrested in Afghanistan. Claude Gueant, the French interior minister, earlier said that the man was known to authorities for having spent time in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
07.20 The suspected gunman's address, in a the Cote Pavee district - a quiet suburb in Toulouse - is little more than a mile from the school where he shot dead four of his victims on Monday.
07.17 The gunman was tracked down by police through his weapon, scooter and the internet, reports the Telegraph's France correspondent Henry Samuel.
Police reportedly tracked him down via his brother's email address after he contacted his first victim, a French paratrooper to buy a scooter.
07.10 The bodies of the gunman's four Jewish victims outside a school in Toulouse have been flown back to Israel for burial. The bodies of Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, his sons Arieh, 5, and Gabriel, 4, and seven-year-old Miriam Monsonego arrived at Ben Gurion international airport near Tel Aviv shortly before dawn. They are to be buried later today.
_{The coffins of the gunman's Jewish victims are unloaded from an aircraft at Ben Gurion airport in Israel}
07.08 It is unclear whether this is related to the shootings in Toulouse, but AP reports that a package bomb has exploded at the Indonesian Embassy in Paris, causing minor damage but no injuries.
A Paris police official said an employee at the embassy discovered a suspicious package and stepped back in time before exploded. There was minor damage to a window but no injuries, the official said. The source of the package is not immediately clear.
07.04 Claude Gueant, the French interior minister, who is at the scene, said the suspected gunman's mother, who is from Algeria, was brought to the scene but she refused to reason with him, saying she had "little control" over him.
She was asked to make contact with her son, to reason with him, but she did not want to, saying she had little influence on him.
06.57 The BBC's Andrew Neil Tweets that claims of the gunman being a member of al-Qaeda will intensify the presidential election race.
<noframe>Twitter: Andrew Neil - Political fallout from Toulouse will be immense now gunman says he's al Quada. From French presidential election to Israel.</noframe>
06.52 Police are concerned that the suspected gunman may have explosives and that he will blow up the building, reports the Telegraph's Amy Willis.
The area surrounding the house was cordoned off by police officers wearing full body armour and helmets, thought to be members of France's special weapons squad RAID.
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_{A resident in the Cote Pavee district speaks to members of the press}
06.40 The French Interior Minister Claude Gueant says three police officers have been injured in the raid. Gueant says the man is 24 years old, of French nationality and says that "he belongs to al-Qaeda." He says the suspect "wants to take revenge for Palestinian children" killed in the Middle East, and is angry at the French military for its operations abroad. Gueant says the man's brother was arrested.
06.37 Neighbours of the suspected gunman told AFP that shots rang out around 3am as police moved in to seal off a house in the southern city of Toulouse. It is understood that the 24-year-old suspected is resisting arrest.
He was in the first floor of a small building on Rue Vigne in the Cote Pavee district, a quiet residential area, neighbours said. "There was always a lot of people there," said one woman, who refused to give her name. Shots rang out at around 3:00 am witnesses said. One described these as an exchange of fire, and police sources had earlier said two officers were lightly wounded.
06.35 French police sources say officers are engaged in a stand-off with a self-proclaimed al Qaeda jihadist.
_{Police are in a stand-off with the suspected gunman at a house in Toulouse}
06.30 Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of the manhunt for the Toulouse serial killer following the deaths of three children and a teacher outside a Jewish school in the French city, and three paratroopers. We will bring you all the latest news, as it happens.