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All four people taken hostage in a more than 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue have been freed unharmed, police said late on Saturday, and their suspected captor is dead. The siege in the small Texas town of Colleyville — in which the suspect was apparently demanding the release of a convicted terrorist — sparked an outpouring of concern from Jewish organizations in the US, as well as from the Israeli government. Colleyville Chief of Police Michael Miller told a news conference that a “rescue team breached the synagogue” on Saturday evening and saved the three remaining hostages ...
All four people taken hostage in a more than 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue have been freed unharmed, police said.
All four people taken hostage in a more than 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue have been freed unharmed, police said late Saturday, and their suspected captor is dead.
Even the man who attacked the synagogue praised him, saying on the live-streamed audio that the rabbi had welcomed him into the building when he knocked on the door asking whether the synagogue was a shelter.