Paris school hostage siege ends

Wed, 11 July 2012

03:37

A man apparently brandishing a fake gun has freed the final hostage he had been holding at a French school outside Paris and has himself been captured.

The last hostage was a parent who had come to drop off a child at the school in Vitry-sur-Seine, which is being used as a leisure centre during the holidays, police said.

Earlier, the man released a group of children he had been holding.

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