Armed teacher took 18 pupils hostage in French school

Armed teacher took 18 pupils hostage in French school
Armed teacher took 18 pupils hostage in French school

An armed former teacher took 18 pupils and two adults hostage in a school in western France on Thursday, local officials said.

Police surrounded the building as the man held the pupils, a teacher and another adult in a classroom in the secondary school in Sable-sur-Sarthe in western France, a spokesman for the town authorities said.

The hostage-taker made no immediate demands. Police did not say what weapon he was carrying but France Info radio said he was armed with a gun.

The spokesman for the local authorities gave no details about the man other than saying he was a former teacher at the school. France Info said he was aged 33.

The mayor of Sable-sur-Sarthe, about 220 km (140 miles) southwest of Paris, is Francois Fillon, a former education minister, reports the AP.

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