Police found explosives while arresting the brother of Mohammed Merah, the terrorist wanted in the murder of four people outside a Jewish school in Toulouse. According to French media outlets, officers found dozens of grams of explosives in the possession of Abed el-Khader Merah.

Mohammed Merah was found living a short distance from the school he attacked. He is also suspected of murdering three French soldiers. On Wednesday he attacked and wounded three police officers as they attempted to arrest him; he is currently engaged in a stand-off with police.