Police at a kindergarten where a man took some 30 children and teachers captive in Muar, Malaysia. Picture: AP Source: AP
Police at a kindergarten where a man took some 30 children and teachers captive in Muar, Malaysia. Picture: AP Source: AP
MALAYSIAN police have stormed a kindergarten where a man armed with a hammer held 30 children and their teachers hostage.
Special forces police fired a smoke bomb and entered the building to end the six-hour standoff in Sg Abong, in the southern district of Muar, the New Straits Times reported.
The hostage-taker was shot and was in critical condition.
"We have ended the hostage-taking. The children and teachers are safe. The hostage-taker, armed with a hammer and machete, has been taken to a local hospital," a police official was quoted by AFP as saying.
The teachers led the children out of the building to their panicked parents, who gathered during the siege. The children and the teachers were taken to a nearby hospital for medical checks.
The man, described as mentally unstable, entered the kindergarten armed with a hammer and a machete.
He barricaded about 30 children and three teachers on the second floor of the school building and reportedly told negotiators to give him a gun, or he would harm the children.
Police brought in a dozen members of the police special action unit from the capital, Kuala Lumpur, about 160km away.
Muar was the scene of a similar kindergarten siege in March last year when a man with a hammer entered a school and left three six-year-olds with head injuries, AFP reported.
Read more about the man holding kindergarten children hostage in Malaysia at the New Straits Times.
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