French police have made an arrest after raiding a house in Toulouse where a suspect in the deadly Jewish school shooting is holed up.

Police say the person taken into custody is not the alleged shooter and that the siege on the house continues.

Two officers were wounded when the raid got underway. The suspected gunman claims he belongs to al-Qaida but no other information is known.

Authorities spent Tuesday in one of the biggest manhunts in French history.

The shooter murdered a rabbi and three children — ages four, five, and seven — at the Jewish school in Toulouse before driving off on a motorcycle.

All four were shot in the head in a cold-blooded attack that has stunned and outraged France and condemned by world leaders.

President Nicolas Sarkozy and Prime Minister Francois Fillon attended a brief memorial service at a Paris airport before the bodies of the victims were flown to Israel. They will be buried Wednesday.

Schools across France held a moment of silence Tuesday.

Mr. Sarkozy said the anti-Semitic nature of the murders is obvious. He, along with Socialist Francois Hollande and right-winger Marie Le Pen, have have temporarily suspended their presidential election campaigns out of respect for the victims.

French police say the shooter used the same gun to kill three French soldiers of African and French Caribbean origin last week in Toulouse and a nearby town.