Hostages Taken at Clinton Camp
RESOLVED PEACEFULLY updated
Latest update at 7:19 p.m. eastern time
Frightening. One hostage has just been released, which is not reflected in the coverage below.
Shaheen said the hostages were two volunteers. “Hopefully, they’re going
to negotiate this so no one gets hurt,” Shaheen told WMUR-TV in Rochester.WMUR-TV quoted a woman, Lettie Tzizik, saying she spoke to someone who said
she had just been released by the man.“A young woman with a 6-month- or 8-month-old infant came rushing into
the store just in tears, and she said, ‘You need to call 911. A man has just
walked into the Clinton office, opened his coat and showed us a bomb strapped
to his chest with duct tape.’” … ..
We’ll have to obviously wait and see why this man went off, taking hostages
at the Clinton campaign in New Hampshire. But he’s obviously trying to appeal
directly to Hillary Clinton about something. It’s an obvious good sign he let a mother
and her child out.
Clinton is in Washington, but has canceled her speech today. Here’s their statement:
There is an ongoing situation in our Rochester, NH office. We are in close
contact with state and local authorities and are acting at their direction.
We will release additional details as appropriate.
UPDATE II: Boston Globe reports the hostage element of this crisis is over, thank God.… wrongly, because according to other news reports they got it wrong.
UPDATE: WMUR is reporting that it is a 40 year-old man with a history of mental illness. He supposedly told his son to “watch the news” today.
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