美国弗吉尼亚州某男子劫持人质案戏剧性结束-英语新闻-社会生活-美国弗吉尼亚州某男子劫持人质案戏剧性结束-英语新闻-社会生活-
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A man suspected of taking hostages in a post office in the US state of Virginia has been arrested after a stand-off lasting several hours, police say.
美国弗吉尼亚州某男子涉嫌在一座邮局挟持人质，在经历数小时的
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美国弗吉尼亚州某男子劫持人质案戏剧性结束-英语新闻-社会生活-
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A man suspected of taking hostages in a post office in the US state of Virginia has been arrested after a stand-off lasting several hours, police say.
美国弗吉尼亚州某男子涉嫌在一座邮局挟持人质，在经历数小时的
僵持之后被逮捕。
The suspected hostage taker told police he had a military background
Authorities in Wytheville persuaded Warren Taylor to give himself up and release three people he was holding.
Mr Taylor was reported to have entered the post office pushing a wheelchair and claiming to be carrying explosives.
He initially最初，开头 fired shots from the building but no-one was reported to have been injured.
"We're just grateful it ended peacefully," the Associated Press news agency quoted Police Sgt Michael Conroy as saying.
"This is just the best outcome结果，结局 we could hope for."
Earlier reports said the suspect was holding five people but some of those were later accounted for对……负有责任，对……做出解释.
A witness told CNN that he and two other employees had escaped as the situation was unfolding.
Sgt Conroy of the Virginia State Police said Mr Taylor entered the post office at about 1430 local time (1930 GMT).
Police negotiated with him by telephone but he made no demands other than a request for a pizza, said Pete Rendina, spokesman for the US Postal Inspection Service.
Mr Taylor is reported to have told police he had a military background.
'Explosives device'
Local media reported the hostage taker was in a wheelchair, although witnesses目击者，证人 later said they saw him walking inside the
building. He emerged from the post office in the chair.
The town's mayor, Trent Crewe, told reporters police had been "acting on the assumption there is an explosive device of some kind in some location".
Police had cordoned off隔离 the scene and advised people to evacuate
疏散，撤离 homes and businesses in the immediate area.
Local businesswoman Susan Holman told the Wytheville Enterprise newspaper police had warned the man had "enough explosives to take out the whole block".
However Sgt Conroy said no explosives had yet been found on the man or in the building.
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