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| Police free schoolgirl hostages in Germany |
| 2005-04-12 |
| Four schoolgirls held by an Iranian man armed with two knives were freed by police after a five-hour hostage-taking in western Germany, a police spokesman said. The man, believed to be in his 50s, had taken them hostage after boarding a bus and then forced the girls, aged from 11 to 16, into the cellar of a suburban house in the town of Ennepetal near Wuppertal. Police said the girls were fine, but did not provide any information on the condition of the hostage-taker, and refused to comment on media reports that he was an asylum-seeker who was demanding that his children be allowed to join him in Germany. |
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