{"id":124484,"date":"2011-09-06T16:35:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T11:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=124484"},"modified":"2011-09-06T16:35:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T11:35:48","slug":"police-free-girl-held-hostage-by-father-in-sydney-bomb-scare-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/09\/06\/police-free-girl-held-hostage-by-father-in-sydney-bomb-scare-photos.html","title":{"rendered":"Police Free Girl Held Hostage by Father in Sydney Bomb Scare (PHOTOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian police have raided the legal office occupied by a father holding his daughter hostage and claiming to be carrying a bomb.<\/p>\n

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Police stormed into the building in Panrramatta, an outer Sydney suburb, shortly after 8pm armed with a battering ram, chainsaw and axe.<\/p>\n

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They walked out at 8:10pm with the girl but the man was still inside, the Herald Sun reports<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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The girl was heard screaming as she was removed from the building and could be heard asking frantically: “Where’s my dad, where’s my dad?”<\/p>\n

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She was then reunited with family members and loaded onto a stretcher and into an ambulance.<\/p>\n

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“While distressed she is otherwise believed to be uninjured,” NSW Police said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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The 52-year-old father was later arrested and taken into custody, police at the scene said, ending an 11-hour ordeal.<\/p>\n

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He had dropped a note out the window about an hour before his arrest, but police would not reveal it contents.<\/p>\n

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Police had been negotiating with the man to release his daughter from the second floor of a legal office in George Street, Parramatta.<\/p>\n

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Assistant Commissioner Dennis Clifford said the man was aged in his 50s and the girl was aged in her early teens.<\/p>\n

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It was believed she is about 12.<\/p>\n

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Police described the situation as very delicate and dangerous and declined to give details on the man’s motive or say whether he was in fact carrying a bomb, Reuters reported<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> earlier.<\/p>\n

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Australian police have raided the legal office occupied by a father holding his daughter hostage and claiming to be carrying a bomb.
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