PARIS: Armed robbers were holding 10 people hostage in a clothes store in a shopping precinct just outside Paris on Monday, local media reported.
A police source confirmed 10 staff were unaccounted for but could not confirm the reports that they had been taken hostage. The incident took place in Villeneuve-la-Garenne, in the Hauts-de-Seine region to the northwest of the French capital. (Reporting by Mark John and Chine.