Hostage drama ends peacefully at French school

Friday, March 10, 2006, 3:03 [IST]

SABLE-SUR-SARTHE, France, Mar 9 (Reuters) A depressed and unemployed teacher gave himself up to police after taking 20 pupils and three adults hostage today at a school in western France, a police official said.

There was no word of any casualties in the hostage drama, which ended quietly midway through this evening, a few hours after it began.

The 33-year-old man had barricaded the pupils aged 17 and 18, a teacher and two other adults into a classroom, and demanded to talk to the media and former Education Minister Francois Fillon about his inability to find work.

''It's over,'' said Prefect Stephane Bouillon, the top local government official in Sable-sur-Sarthe, 220 km (140 miles) southwest of Paris. ''There was no violence.'' Reuters AD VP0243

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Nearly 20 mln pounds of record UK heist found-police

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LONDON, Mar 9 (Reuters) Nearly 20 million pounds of the 53 million stolen last month in the biggest cash heist in British history has now been recovered, police said today. A Kent police spokesman said a haul recovered at an address in Southborough, near Tonbridge, southern England, at the weekend had been counted and confirmed as 8.6 million pounds. ''That brings the total recovered so far to 19.7 million pounds,'' he said. The money was stolen.....

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