A man, who had taken two hostages in a post office, surrenders to French security forces on January 16 in Colombes, outside Paris. AFP Photo
A man, who had taken two hostages in a post office, surrenders to French security forces on January 16 in Colombes, outside Paris. AFP Photo
A man, who had taken two hostages in a post office, surrenders to French security forces on January 16 in Colombes, outside Paris. AFP Photo
A man, who had taken two hostages in a post office, surrenders to French security forces on January 16 in Colombes, outside Paris. AFP Photo

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France post office hostage-taker surrenders: police

The man was armed with Kalashnikovs and grenades.

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PARIS // A man who holed up in a post office in a suburb north-west of Paris with two hostages on Friday surrendered and has been arrested, a police source said.

“There was no assault, the man gave himself up”, the source said, adding that the hostages were “shocked but not injured”.

Police sources said several post office clients had managed to escape and that the gunman himself had called them. The sources said he was “speaking incoherently” and was heavily armed with grenades and Kalashnikovs.

The area around the post office in Colombes, a city north-west of Paris, had been cordoned off, with a helicopter flying overhead and elite security forces on the ground.

The French capital is still jittery after a series of attacks last week by gunmen left 17 people dead.

* Agence France-Presse

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