Former teacher takes students hostage in France
09/03/2006 - 15:44:11A former teacher armed with a hand gun took some 20 people, including students, hostage today, holding them in a high school classroom, French police said.
The television station LCI reported that 18 of the hostages were students at the school, one was a teacher and another an employee.
No further information on the hostage-taking at the Colbert de Torcy High School was immediately available.
The school is in Sable-sur-Sarthe, about 35 miles outside Le Mans and some 160 miles south-west of Paris.
