TOULOUSE, France -- French police stormed a bank in Toulouse yesterday, arresting a gunman and freeing his two hostages after a seven-hour siege.
The 26-year-old, who had taken four bank employees hostage in the morning in the same area where serial killer Mohamed Merah lived and was shot dead by police in March, was wounded in the stomach in the assault, police sources said.
The two other hostages, both women, had been released earlier, and no police officers were injured in the operation, which took place at 4:45 pm local time (1445 GMT), police said.
