France: Large manhunt underway to track man suspected of double murder
A manhunt in the French mountainous region of Cevennes to detain a heavily armed man suspected of having killed two people entered its second day on Thursday. The fugitive is believed to have fatally shot his boss and another employee in the sawmill where he was employed on Tuesday in the small village of Les Plantiers on the slopes of Mount Aigoual in the heart of southern France's Cevennes park. Hundreds of gendarmes, half a dozen helicopters, and specialist dog teams have been deployed since then to comb the 15 square kilometres of forest in which he has sought refuge. The gendarmerie, whi...