4 restaurant hostages in France freed: media


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  • Sunday, 17 Nov 2024

PARIS, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Four restaurant employees taken hostage in the city of Issy-les-Moulineaux, neighboring Paris, were freed on Saturday afternoon, French news channel BFMTV reported.

According to the news channel, a man with a knife took hostage four employees of his father's restaurant at around 1 p.m. local time (1200 GMT) on Saturday. The man has been arrested.

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