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LEAD: Armed man takes 20 people hostage in French school: report+(Japan Economic Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)PARIS, March 9_(Kyodo) _ (EDS: ADDING MORE INFO) An armed man took 20 people, including 18 pupils, hostage in a school in western France on Thursday, French public radio reported. The armed man is a former teacher, the report said. It was not clear what weapon the man was carrying, Reuters news service quoted a spokesman for local authorities in Sable-sur-Sarthe in western France as saying, adding the official did not say what demands the man had made. Meanwhile, the Japanese Embassy in Paris said it has received no information that Japanese were involved in the incident. |