17 students and a professor held hostage in Connecticut right now! **Update: Everybody except the bad guy are ok**
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Adul
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<< argh... still suck at work... keep me posted please!! >>
Very few details right now...I'll update the first post as I learn more...
CNN
FAIRFIELD, Connecticut (CNN) -- A Fairfield University graduate held 17 students and one faculty member hostage in a classroom on campus Tuesday and claimed to have an explosive device, police said.
Five other hostages, all female students, were released.
The hostage-taking began around 4 p.m. during a religion class at Canisius Hall, which houses administrative offices and classrooms. The rest of the building was evacuated.
A police official said the hostage taker had "what he purports to be an explosive device."
"It's just an emotional situation," said a spokeswoman for the offices of student services at the Jesuit school of about 5,000 students.
She said city and campus police were on the scene. A police spokesman said the campus was evacuated.
"It's a very calm scene, but obviously very tense," said Doug Whiting, the university's assistant vice president for public relations.
FAIRFIELD, Connecticut (CNN) -- A Fairfield University graduate held 17 students and one faculty member hostage in a classroom on campus Tuesday and claimed to have an explosive device, police said.
Five other hostages, all female students, were released.
The hostage-taking began around 4 p.m. during a religion class at Canisius Hall, which houses administrative offices and classrooms. The rest of the building was evacuated.
A police official said the hostage taker had "what he purports to be an explosive device."
"It's just an emotional situation," said a spokeswoman for the offices of student services at the Jesuit school of about 5,000 students.
She said city and campus police were on the scene. A police spokesman said the campus was evacuated.
"It's a very calm scene, but obviously very tense," said Doug Whiting, the university's assistant vice president for public relations.
Do you think the bomb is real? I mean, I would think it would be pretty hard to fool 15 students and a professor and keep them in their seats if there were any doubt.
katka: you are a loser...
Funny how CNN has Figure Skating as the Top Story and this huge hostage story as a side link. I hate CNN
Funny how CNN has Figure Skating as the Top Story and this huge hostage story as a side link. I hate CNN
<< Funny how CNN has Figure Skating as the Top Story and this huge hostage story as a side link. I hate CNN >>
I know what you mean. But Yahoo! doesn't have a link to news about it (one needs to look at Yahoo! News to find it), MSNBC has a little line on the top of their page, and I don't see anything about it over at the foxnews.com page (but it can be found as a one liner inhte headlines section).
I guess this isn't big enough news for people.
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