Day Care Hostage Taker Recovering
A gunman shot in the head by police after holding 25 children and three adults hostage at a day care center in Wasserbillig, Luxembourg, was recovering in the hospital. Police identified the suspect as Neji Bejaoui, 39, a Tunisian who has been living in Luxembourg since 1982. The 28-hour ordeal ended late Thursday when police lured the gunman outside on the pretext of a media interview. They fired two shots and hit him once in the head with a gun apparently concealed in a TV camera. The ploy raised concern from an international journalists’ group, which said it could put camera crews at risk in the future.
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