Armed man holed up in hotel in southern France: police

July 19, 2016 19:14

An armed man was holed up in a hotel in the southern French town of Bollene on Tuesday afternoon, a spokeswoman for the local police prefecture said.

"A deranged man is holed up in the Formule 1 hotel," the spokeswoman told Reuters, referring to a cheap motel chain.

Police were at the scene and the man's motives were not immediately known, she added.

The hotel has been evacuated and the man is thought to be armed with a knife and may have an explosive device, a local gendarme officer said separately.

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