PARIS, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- Two men were arrested Wednesday afternoon after police found equipment and material suspected to be used for making explosives in an apartment in the southern suburbs of Paris.
A demining operation began around noon in the commune of Villejuif, and lasted until the late afternoon, according to French media.
The men were arrested in the neighboring commune of Kremlin-Bicetre when their car was stopped by the police.
One of them is the owner of the apartment, a 36-year-old man from Amiens, north France, and the other is a 47-year-old born in Tunisia, said French broadcaster LCI quoting police source.
Gas cylinders and electric wire are among the things found by deminers in the apartment, according to the newspaper Le Figaro.
LCI said oxygenated water, syringes and batteries were also found in the apartment, as well as many writings in Arabic.
Traffic in the two communes was disrupted on Wednesday afternoon, and a metro station in Kremlin-Bicetre was also temporarily closed.
The administrative bodies of both communes asked people to avoid going to these areas on social media.
The anti-terrorism section of the Paris Public Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation for possible terror-related crimes.
It was a plumber who noticed something that looked like detonators, and then called the police around 11 a.m. local time, the reports said.
A large area around the four-storey residential building was evacuated shortly after the operation began, including a construction site nearby.
