Toulouse siege - in pictures

Mohamed Merah, 24, who is suspected of carrying out the shootings Photograph: France 2 Television/EPA

Heavily armed French police officers departing the scene of the siege Photograph: Pascal Pavani/AFP/Getty Images

French police block a street during the raid on the five-storey building Photograph: Pascal Parrot/Reuters

Special police units surround the building where Merah has been holed up Photograph: Lancelot Frederic/Sipa/Rex Features

Police officers and response teams outside the property Photograph: Getty Images

Journalists wait as police officers, firefighters and members of the RAID special police forces unit work to arrest Merah Photograph: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images

French police block a road as they attempt to arrest the suspected gunman Photograph: Getty Images

A masked French special intervention police officer arrives at the scene Photograph: Pascal Parrot/Reuters

Police officers and firefighters congregate outside the besieged building Photograph: Remy de la Mauvinere/AP

French riot control police block a street during the raid Photograph: Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters

Police stand near the Belle Paule residence Photograph: Remy Gabalda/AFP/Getty Images

A police officer talks on a phone next to the building where the suspect was spotted Photograph: Remy de la Mauvinere/AP

The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy (background, right), stands as soldiers hold the coffin of one of the three French paratroopers killed by Mohamed Merah in Montauban Photograph: Pascal Pavani/AFP/Getty Images

Sarkozy walks towards the coffin of one of the paratroopers Photograph: LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP/Getty Images

Mourners in Jerusalem carry the body of one of the victims of the Toulouse school shooting Photograph: Richard s/Demotix/Corbis

The mother, centre, of seven-year-old Miriam Monsonego mourns at the funeral in Jerusalem Photograph: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images