Police officers have stormed a home where a man was holding hostage the wife and son of a police officer he’d just stabbed to death.
According to Le Parisien, shots and explosions were heard from the Magnanville home, 55km west of Paris.
While the son and wife were inside, the man tweeted that he’d killed the woman.
France’s interior minister spokesman, Pierre-Henry Brandet, confirmed that a policeman, a woman and the attacker have been killed.
Brandet says that police rescued a child from the scene.
The slain police officer was stabbed by the attacker nine times in the abdomen just outside the property, reports The Mirror.
Le Parisienhave identified the attacker as 42-year-old commander Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, the neighbour to the victim. He refused to talk to police negotiators during the hostage situation.
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