Update 6.47pm: The driver who rammed a car carrying explosives into a police convoy on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris has died after the "attempted attack" on security forces, France's interior minister said.

Police believe the botched raid on a French bank was a revenge attack after the suspect was fired from his job at the bank.

A bank robber in Paris has shot and killed three people during a hold-up in a suburb north of the French capital today.

About 10 people have been taken hostage during a bank holdup in a suburb north of Paris.