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US school siege ends in bloodshed

29 septembre 2006, 00:00

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A gunman and one of the teenage girls he was holding hostage have died after police stormed a school in the US state of Colorado. The violent end to the siege in the small mountain town of Bailey came after the gunman threatened to harm the two female students he was holding.

The local sheriff said the gunman had shot the hostage and then himself as police attempted to rescue the girls. The gunman initially seized six girls, but later released four of them. The injured girl was taken by helicopter to hospital in Denver, where she later died. The other girl was unhurt

The motives of the gunman - described as being between 30 and 50 years old - were unknown.

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