<p>Police arrested the 17-year-old who burst into the school in the eastern city of Besancon and initially took 20 children hostage, Education Minister Luc Chatel said.<br /><br />He released most of them over the course of the morning but kept five and their teacher for several hours in the one-storey building in the middle of a public housing estate.</p>
<p>Police arrested the 17-year-old who burst into the school in the eastern city of Besancon and initially took 20 children hostage, Education Minister Luc Chatel said.<br /><br />He released most of them over the course of the morning but kept five and their teacher for several hours in the one-storey building in the middle of a public housing estate.</p>