Officer Goes Incognito to End Hostage Standoff
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From Times Wire Reports
A Spanish youth with a knife took his sister and 19 other children hostage at his former school and held them for hours until a policeman disguised as a pizza delivery man overpowered him and ended the siege.
None of the students were hurt in the ordeal at the school in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, south of Barcelona.
Officials said the hostage-taker was 16 or 17 and had demanded a $1-million ransom because his family needed money.
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