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| Colombia hostage siege man seized | Colombia hostage siege man seized |
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| Colombian police have arrested a man who had taken several people hostage in an office in the capital, Bogota. | Colombian police have arrested a man who had taken several people hostage in an office in the capital, Bogota. |
| Police told the BBC they had disarmed the man and that the incident was over. | Police told the BBC they had disarmed the man and that the incident was over. |
| The man, identified as former army employee Edgar Paz Morales, had been threatening to set off a grenade while demanding pension payments. | |
| Speaking to a radio station during the stand-off, the man said he wanted top officials and the media to be brought to the scene. | |
| Local CityTV showed images of the man pacing up and down with the grenade in front of hostages and journalists allowed in to interview him. | |
| "I am basically asking for my pension," the man told a reporter for CityTV at the office, a branch of a pension fund in the centre of Bogota. | |
| Colombian police move in on the man who held people hostage | |
| He said the government had favoured paramilitaries involved in Colombia's long-running conflict who had been demobilised, but that it had delayed military pensions. | |
| Police said undercover officers were able to overpower Mr Morales by pretending they were members of the press. | |
| Officials said they had surprised Mr Morales with a paralysing device. |