Updated 1.57pm

HOSTAGES HAVE BEEN freed from a post office in a Paris suburb, with the hostage taker giving himself up.

A police source told AFP that the man who holed himself up in the building with two hostages surrendered.

He is now in police custody.

“”There was no assault, the man gave himself up”, the source said, adding that the hostages were “shocked but not injured.”

The incident comes in the wake of last week’s attacks that killed 17 people. However, local reports are suggesting the incident was not terror-related.

The raider is believed to have been armed, according to French TV channel BFMTV.

There is no known link with last week’s jihadist attacks, according to the AFP report. A helicopter is flying overhead in the area.

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The incident developed in the Colombes area in the west of Paris…

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