Possible Hostage Sitiuation In Paris

Negotiations are under way with a man who is holed up in a house in the Paris suburbs after stabbing a police officer to death, the French interior ministry said.

Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet told AFP "an evaluation" was ongoing "to confirm if the individual has hostages with him".

The man holed up in the policeman's home in Magnanville, northwest of the French capital. Elite police were at the scene.

The attacker stabbed the officer repeatedly outside the property as he returned home.

The police officer who was killed was identified by local media as 40-year-old commander Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, reports BNO News.

More to come.

- NZ Herald