French police persuaded two men to give themselves up peacefully today after they had taken six people hostage in a bank south of Paris.
Special police forces gather outside the bank where two men held six people hostage in Rungis, south of Paris. Photograph: Reuters/Benoit Tessier
Three of the hostages were released earlier in the day and the final three were freed early in the afternoon after a specialist police negotiating team was sent to the scene at Rungis, site of the main Paris wholesale food market.
Witnesses saw police officers entering the bank and leaving with one man. It was not clear what happened to the second hostage-taker.
The two suspects appeared to have arrived by scooter and authorities have found surveillance camera footage of their entry to the bank.
