A gunman was killed by police after taking a woman and her two children – including a one-year-old baby – hostage in the northern French town of Roubaix near France’s border with Belgium.
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Fevre didn’t specify how many were on the run or what had motivated the hostage-taking.
Reuters reports that several people have sustained gunshot wounds. A special police unit has been dispatched, the office said. “I closed the shutters and we prepared to spend the night hidden”, said one resident to a local journalist.
Police cordon off the area close to where armed men have taken hostages in the northern French town of Roubaix.
It was not immediately clear whether the gunmen were linked to the deadly attacks in Paris on Novemer 13 in which 130 died.
The incident came as France remained on a high state of alert following its worst militant attacks.
On Friday it was reported that Belgian cops are hunting the suspected bombmaker they believe provided the suicide bombs terror attackers detonated on Friday in Paris.
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“This is apparently not a terrorist attack, it’s apparently a robbery”, one police source said.
