French police have officially confirmed the suspected serial killer Mohamed Merah is dead after a 32 hour siege ended in grenade explosions and gunfire. The gunman had jumped out of the bathroom window still shooting as police broke through, and was found dead where he fell. Three police commandos were wounded in the raid on the suspect's flat, one of them seriously. Merah, a 23-year-old French citizen of Algerian origin claimed association with Al-Qaeda, and confessed to killing four people outside a Jewish school and three French soldiers in separate attacks in the Toulouse region.
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