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| Knife hold-up in Italian nursery | Knife hold-up in Italian nursery |
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| A man armed with a box-cutting knife has barricaded himself into a day-care centre in southern Italy. | |
| News reports said that at least a dozen children and a teacher were inside the centre in the town of Reggio Calabria. | News reports said that at least a dozen children and a teacher were inside the centre in the town of Reggio Calabria. |
| A local police chief said two children were released after a few hours, and there are reports of a third leaving. | |
| Footage from inside the classroom showed the man - believed to be a parent of one of the children - waving a box cutter and shouting. | |
| The man, who allowed cameras from Rai state television into the building, has made references to money and judicial sentences. | |
| A police official told the Associated Press that they were trying to persuade the man to leave the building. | A police official told the Associated Press that they were trying to persuade the man to leave the building. |
| Ansa reported that some parents of the children had gathered at the school along with a crowd of onlookers and the man's father and brother were trying to talk to him. | |
| The news agency said the mayor of Reggio Calabria, Giuseppe Scopelliti, was also on his way to the scene to speak to the man. |