Hostage Crisis Ends At Spanish School

Ananova ^ | 11-18-2002

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Hostage crisis ends at Spanish school

Police have captured an armed man who had taken 25 children hostage at a school near Barcelona.

None of the students were hurt.

The man had released 21 of the 25 captives in two groups, and about 45 minutes later the government said he had been detained.

It is not known if police stormed the school or the assailant surrendered.

Sixteen were released about two hours after the hostage-taking began in Hospitalet de Llobregat. Shortly afterwards, another five students were freed.

Spanish Interior Minister Angel Acebes, speaking in the central city of Guadalajara, confirmed the arrest and said the hostage-taker was a former pupil of the school.

As a car left the schoolyard, apparently taking the assailant to a police station, a crowd swarmed around it and many people screamed insults.

Story filed: 19:08 Monday 18th November 2002

[Maedhros]

a crowd swarmed around it and many people screamed insults

Time for an auto-da-fé?

[F-117A]

It is not known if police stormed the school or the assailant surrendered.

The perp must have requested a pizza be delivered. A cop poseing as a pizza delivery boy overpowered him.

[Feiny]

Armed man? Armed with what? A gun, a bomb, a knife, hatchet, a wolverine...what did he have?

[Lady Heron]

An earlier artical said that he had a knife.

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Of course no one expects the Spanish Inquisition!!!

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From an AP report...Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain — A teenager with a knife took his sister and 19 other children hostage at his former school and held them for hours Monday until a plainclothes officer overpowered him while delivering a pizza, officials said.

No one expects the pizza delivery man either :)

[AnAmericanMother]

. . . I said NO ANCHOVIES!!!!!

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"A cop poseing as a pizza delivery boy overpowered him."

Domino's vobiscum.......