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Paris school hostage siege 'ends' | |
(about 1 hour later) | |
An armed man has released the last hostage he had been holding at a French school on the outskirts of Paris and has himself been captured, reports say. | |
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 gunman released a group of children he had been holding. | |
Many French schools run summer activities during the holidays. | |
Officers of the elite police Raid unit were attending the scene. | |
The Charles Perrault pre-school is in the centre of the town, itself some 7.5 km (5 miles) from the centre of Paris. | |
Police were called at about 07:00 (05:00 GMT) to the school, where five to 10 children and three parents were at the time, French radio reported. | |
The children were quickly released. | |
The hostage-taker was said to be in his 30s and unknown to the police. He may have been wearing a binman's green boiler suit when he entered the school, police sources told French radio. | |
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