A man with a gun has barricaded himself in hotel room in Bollene, France. There are also reports of a suspicious package being found outside the building. A gunman has barricaded himself in a hotel in Bollene, according to police sources quoted by local media. The hotel was evacuated and police operation is in progress, report local media. The gunman barricaded himself in early afternoon at the Hotel Formule 1 Bollène, in the department of Vaucluse in southern France. The building has been evacuated, while military officers and firefighters are stationed near the scene, according to local media.
“A deranged man is holed up in the Formule 1 hotel,” a spokeswoman for the local police told Reuters. While the gunman’s motives are still not clear, the suspect is thought to be armed with a knife and may have an explosive device, a local gendarme officer said.
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