PARIS (Reuters) - An armed man holding hostages in a bank in Le Havre, northern France, released a third person on Thursday but was still holding another three individuals, police sources said.
Elite police have been deployed to the zone. Two senior police union officials said the assailant had a history of psychiatric illness and was suspected of Islamist sympathies.
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