A screenshot taken from Google Maps of the site where the incident took place.
Two men who took several people hostage in a church in France’s northern Normandy region have been “neutralised”, the French interior ministry said Tuesday.
Police sources said between four and six people had been held by the assailants in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, a southern suburb of Rouen located 128 kilometres north-west of Paris.
It was not immediately clear if the assailants had been killed or taken alive during a police operation.
One hostage had been killed, according to police.
RTL radio quoted emergency services as saying several people had been injured in the incident. – FRANCE24/Reuters/AFP