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Ex-teacher seizes French students
A former teacher has taken 18 students, a teacher and a teaching assistant hostage at a school in France.
The man, who is armed with a handgun, is holding the hostages at a school in Sable-sur-Sarthe, south-west of Paris.
The 33-year-old man has been out of work since losing his job as a supply teacher at the school two years ago.
Police have surrounded the building and officers are negotiating with the man who has barricaded himself and the hostages in a classroom.
The man has made no demands but a police official said the hostage-taker "wants to talk to the press about his employment problems".
An employee at the Colbert de Torcy secondary school told LCI television: "He was very depressed when he left the school two years ago.
"We knew him, that's why we allowed him into the school."
French special forces are reported to be en route from Paris to the scene.
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Published: 2006/03/09 16:21:26 GMT
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Oh yeah, like this is going to help.
What a loser. Cap him.
... but the nation has surrendered just to be safe.
Apologies. Catching back up on my own post after phone call. Originally, I heard this on FOX and then googled for more news.