Paris: An armed man, who took two hostages in a Paris postal office in the suburbs Friday, was arrested after he surrendered to the police, media reports said.

The armed man entered an office of La Poste in Colombes, west of Paris, and took two people hostage. The man had past convictions and he called the police himself, Xinhua reported citing the news channel BFMTV. The demands made by him were not clear, the report added.