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All hostages are freed after a botched robbery in northern France

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All hostages are freed after a botched robbery in northern France
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A hostage taking incident in the northern French town of Roubaix appears to be over. Police have reported one gunman as dead and another arrested

A hostage taking incident in the northern French town of Roubaix appears to be over.

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Police have reported one gunman as dead and another arrested. All hostages have been freed.

At first there were fears the incident was linked to a terrorist attack but police quickly ruled that out. It now seems to have been a robbery in which a bank manager and his family were victims of a botched kidnapping by a group of armed men.

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