A KNIFE-wielding man has taken multiple people hostage inside a pizza restaurant in Paris.
Dozens of cop cars and ambulances have rushed to the tense scene and authorities have locked down the street in a siege.
AFPPolice officers block the road near the restaurant Pizza L’Olivier in Issy-les-Moulineaux, suburbs of Paris[/caption]
AFPFrench National Police Search and Intervention Brigade officers (BRI) stand outside the restaurant in the suburbs of Paris[/caption]
ReutersPolice members work outside the pizza restaurant[/caption]
The man is said to be holding the employees of Pizza L’Olivier restaurant in Issy-les-Moulineaux hostage.
Police sources familiar with the situation say at least four people have been taken hostage.
“He is retaining three or four employees, but there are no “customers or public”, the source said, according to Le Parisien.
The motive of the attacker is unclear as of now.
A press release from the restaurant’s management said: “A hostage situation is currently taking place in our restaurant in Issy-les-Moulineaux.
“Four people are being held inside by a man who is expressing suicidal thoughts (…). We would like to inform you that there are no customers among the hostages, only employees.”
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