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A MAN CLAIMING to have a bomb in a canvas bag took at least one person hostage today in an office building in the US city of Pittsburgh, authorities said.
“There’s a hostage situation at Three Gateway Center,” said Kelly Kochamba, an FBI spokeswoman, naming the building in a downtown office complex.
There’s at least one woman, I don’t know if there’s any more than one.
The assailant claimed to have a bomb, “but there is no evidence at this time,” Kochamba said.
Pittsburgh Police Chief Nate Harper, meanwhile, told reporters at the scene that a man with a criminal record was holding two people on the sixteenth floor of the highrise.
The man has a criminal record but is “not irrational,” he said.
“I wish I could say I’m very confident but it’s up to the individual and right now we don’t know,” he said, adding that no demands have been made and that “no one knows what he wants.”
The alleged hostage-taker’s mother was called to the scene to help resolve the situation, according to CNN.
Pittsburgh is the capital of Pennsylvania, a state on the east coast of the United States.
The Associated Press says that Facebook has shut down the profile page of a 22-year-old who police say took the hostage, about five hours after he entered a 16th floor office at Three Gateway Center.
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Hmmm Journal she doesn’t even speak one word and appears on screen for all of one second in Planes, Train and Automobiles !
Yes, I rather think the headline should be “Actress Diana Douglas of Kirk Douglas’s first wife fame…”
An article on this but nothing on Nicholas Winton passing away earlier in the week??
Yeah, because risking your life to single handedly save the lives of 669 Jewish children from certain death and then being so humble about it that your wife only discovers about it in a scrapbook in the attic nearly 50 years later doesn’t warrant mention.
Journal really scraping the barrel for stories. Tine to delete app maybe
Married three times – to her second husband for thirty six years, still married to her third husband when she died, yet still goes by her famous first husbands surname! – way to inflict an inferiority complex!!!!!
What character did she play in trains planes?
She played Steve Martin’s mother or mother in law. You see her for a micro second at the end.
No wonder i cant picture her in it.
A pilot .
Gobble gobble!
Is the headline a joke
I thought michel Douglas was 92
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