Hundreds of students taken hostage in Tehran

[ECH1969]

A gunman took hundreds of students and teachers hostage in a high school in Tehran, witnesses said.

The man, with a grenade belt, warned he would detonate the explosives if the government did not fulfil his demands, the witnesses said. The demands were not immediately known.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1853928,00050004.htm

[htuttle]

1. I read that headline backwards at first...

...and experienced a really uncomfortable feeling of deja vu...

[Cobalt-60]

2. Yeah, I expected them to have been seized by

American Diplomats.

[Pavulon]

3. Irony for the home of the suicide bomber...

Hopefully all are ok. Chickens roosting.. So many cute things to say. Will reserve them until all are safe.

[NVMojo]

4. this is terrible!

[Captain Hilts]

5. Are they related to anyone who took our embassy people hostage? nt

[MGD]

6. Trying to give a shit...........

nope sorry, can't do it.

[Scurrilous]

7. Tehran school siege ends peacefully (12 hours ago)

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"A man armed with grenades and pistols took Tehran pupils hostage Monday in a junior high school siege that ended without any children being harmed, a witness on the scene said.

Police escorted the man and his teenage daughter from the building as the freed hostages rushed outside, some crying and others smiling, to join their anxious parents waiting in the street.

"About 80 students were forced by the man to gather in one classroom and after police intervention only 10 were still kept by him before we convinced him to give himself up," Tehran police Colonel Mohammad Hemmati told reporters."

<snip>

"Colonel Hemmati said that the armed man "seemed to have psychological problems and had different demands ... His use of military weapons made it critical to deal with the situation. But nobody was harmed."

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061127-085950-7363r

[mcscajun]

8. Locking

This story was over the 12 hour limit when posted, and the hostages have already been released.