Nov 30, 2007 3:00 pm US/Pacific
Workers Held Hostage At Clinton Campaign Office
Report: Man Claims To Be Wearing Bomb
ROCHESTER, N.H. (CBS) ―
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Hilliary Clinton campaign headquarters in Rochester, N.H., on Nov. 30, 2007.
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A vehicle carries SWAT team officers to the scene of a hostage standoff at Hillary Clinton's campaign headquarters in Rochester, N.H., on Nov. 30, 2007.
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A man is holding at least two people hostage at the presidential campaign office for Sen. Hillary Clinton in Rochester, New Hampshire.
CBS Station WBZ-TV in Boston has learned that the man walked into the office with some sort of device strapped to him, claiming it was a bomb.
He took two hostages, both volunteers, and released others, Shaheen said.
Witness Lettie Tzizik told television station WMUR of Manchester that she spoke to a woman shortly after she was released from the office by the suspect. The woman was carrying an infant, and crying.
"She said, 'You need to call 911. A man has just walked into the Clinton office, opened his coat and showed us a bomb strapped to his chest with duct tape," Tzizik said.
Authorities were sending a tactical bomb unit to assist local police, and the area was evacuated, said Maj. Michael Hambrook of New Hampshire State Police. A nearby school also was in lockdown.
The Clinton office is located in the downtown area in a strip of several storefronts.
Workers for Sen. Barack Obama's campaign office in Rochester also were evacuated, a campaign spokesman said. The office is four doors away from Clinton's. Staffers in John Edwards' office, a few buildings away, evacuated as well.
Police have gathered at a nearby church and set up a command post there. SWAT teams and the State Police bomb squad are heading to the scene.
"We are trying to establish contact with the person inside," Rochester Police Capt. Callahan told WBZ's Joe Shortsleeve.
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