An armed man who held eight people hostage at a bank in the central Czech town of Pribram, was on Friday captured police said, adding that nobody was injured.

Pribram police spokeswoman Monika Schindlova told public broadcaster Czech Television. “A special police unit entered the bank and detained the man,”

“All hostages are OK,” she said, adding the hostage-taker was born in 1990 but refusing to disclose further details about his identity.

The gun-toting suspect was detained about two-and-a-half hours after the hold-up began.

Schindlova told AFP earlier the man had released one hostage before the special operations unit arrived in Pribram, a town some 50 kilometres (30 miles) southwest of the capital Prague.

“Before the negotiator arrived, the man had said he didn’t want to hurt anyone and that this was no bank robbery,” said Schindlova.

“He wanted to negotiate and to file some criminal complaint,” she added.