WASHINGTON: A man claiming to have a bomb in a canvas bag took at least one person hostage yesterday in an office building in the US city of Pittsburgh, authorities said. “There’s a hostage situation at Three Gateway Center,” said Kelly Kochamba, an FBI spokeswoman. “There’s at least one woman, I don’t know if there’s any more than one.”
The assailant claimed to have a bomb, “but there is no evidence at this time,” Kochamba said.
Pittsburgh Police Chief Nate Harper, meanwhile, told reporters at the scene that a man with a criminal record was holding two people on the sixteenth floor of the high-rise.
AFP
