Breaking Russian Ambassador to Costa Rica taken hostage

[rasputin1952]

Source: CNN

-- Russia's ambassador to Costa Rica and seven other people have been taken
hostage at the country's embassy by an armed man, The Associated Press reports.

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Uh-Oh this may not be good...:(

[maddezmom]

1. Reuters has this

Man holds hostage at Russian Embassy in Costa Rica
11 May 2007 20:55:21 GMT
Source: Reuters
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, May 11 (Reuters) - A man from the former Soviet Union was holding one person hostage on Friday in the Russian Embassy in Costa Rica, Public Security Minister Fernando Berrocal told Costa Rican television.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N11219885.htm

[bigworld]

4. Those damn Soviets!

[originalpckelly]

2. Well damn, where the hell did this come from?

:shrug:

[dave_p]

5. Uzbekistan, apparently

It's suggested he has some personal grievance with some country or other. It seems not to be political.

[rasputin1952]

6. From what I can gather, there are some serious malcontents

that show up in the oddest places...:eyes:

[RL3AO]

3. This came out of nowhere.

[Eugene]

7. Hostage-taker surrenders at Russia Embassy in C.Rica (Reuters)

Source: Reuters

Hostage-taker surrenders at Russia Embassy in C.Rica
11 May 2007 23:36:18 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Brian Harris

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, May 11 (Reuters) - An armed man from the former
Soviet Union took at least one person hostage for four hours at the
Russian Embassy in Costa Rica on Friday before surrendering to police.

"It all ended without violence, without loss of life. All the embassy staff
are just fine," said Ambassador Valery Nikolayenko, who stayed in a
separate floor of the building talking to police and the media as police
cordoned off the embassy.

The hostage taker was a 21-year-old man from Kazakhstan, immigration
authorities said, but Costa Rican television said he might be from
Uzbekistan.

The man took another visitor to the embassy hostage because of a
dispute over money, the ambassador said.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N11446334.htm

[rasputin1952]

8. I'm glad this was settled w/o anyone getting harmed...n/t

[arcos]

9. It was a personal problem...

Apparently, one of the hostages received over $30,000 from the family of the hostage taker in order to setup a pineapple business, but he took of with the money.