A group of gunmen broke into a discount clothing store near Paris
Police stand outside the Qwartz mall in Villeneuve-La-Garenne in France on Monday. (Photo: AFP)
Villeeneuve-la-Garenne: A group of gunmen broke into a discount clothing store near Paris on Monday, trapping 18 people inside for hours before fleeing and prompting a manhunt throughout the area, police said.
All 18 people were safely evacuated from the Primark store in a shopping center in the town of Villeneuve-la-Garenne, according to a regional police official. She said police are now pursuing the assailants.
Police surrounded the sprawling shopping center and cordoned off the neighborhood, adjacent to the Seine River about 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of central Paris. The assailants entered the store in what police believe was an attempted robbery, another police official said. Several people were already inside, primarily employees.
The officials weren’t authorized to be publicly named.
Officers from a special police unit entered the store, and a few officers emerged later accompanying women reported to be store employees, according to images broadcast on BFM TV.
( Source : AP )
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