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Knife hold-up in Italian nursery Italy nursery knife hold-up ends
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A man armed with a box-cutting knife has barricaded himself into a day-care centre in southern Italy. A man armed with a box-cutting knife who barricaded himself into a day-care centre in southern Italy has given himself up to the police, reports say.
At least 11 children and a teacher were inside the centre in the town of Reggio Calabria when the incident started. The 11 children and a teacher who were taken hostage in the centre in Reggio Calabria were all released unharmed.
Police told Associated Press the man had released five children. The man's relatives are trying to talk to him. Police and relatives of the man spent hours trying to persuade him to leave the building and let his captives go.
Footage from inside the classroom showed the man - believed to be a parent of one of the children - waving a box cutter and shouting. His motives are still unclear but television footage showed him complaining of judicial problems.
The man, who allowed cameras from Rai state television into the building, has made references to money and judicial sentences. The man allowed cameras from Rai state television into the building and they filmed him waving the box cutter and shouting as the children cowered in front of him.
A police official told the Associated Press that they were trying to persuade the man to leave the building. Ansa reported that parents of some of the children had gathered at the school along with a crowd of onlookers.
Ansa reported that some parents of the children had gathered at the school along with a crowd of onlookers.
The news agency said the mayor of Reggio Calabria, Giuseppe Scopelliti, was also on his way to the scene to speak to the man.