Gunmen held 18 hostages in a Primark store – hostages released, search on for the gunmen

A group of gunmen raided a shopping mall near France and took 18 hostages. The police believes that the gunmen were hiding in the mall because the CCTV showed them entering but there is no evidence to sow that they had left. Police are treating this as an attempted robbery.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 13 July 2015.

Police succeeded to free the 18 staff members who were trapped inside the building. In the opinion of the police, one of the gunmen could have been an employee of Primark and could still be hiding in the Qwartz mall in Villeneuve-la-Garenne just north of Paris.
It seems the gunmen stormed the store soon after 6am when the employees arrived for work. The area in the vicinity of the mall was shut down, all traffic stopped and other stores in the vicinity closed as Special Forces rushed to the scene.
Officers at the scene indicated that they were initially treating the incident as a ‘suspected armed robbery attempt’ but they have not ruled out terrorism.
Paris continue to remain on high alert for terrorist activity after Islamic extremists had attacked a kosher supermarket and satirical newspaper offices in January in which 20 people, including the attackers, had died.
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