Gunman takes 11 children hostage, releases 10

Eleven children of two schools travelling in a van were taken hostage by an armed manin Assam's Sibsagar district today who later released 10 of them before fleeing with one student towards Nagaland.
After an argument with some people at a roadside restaurant at Simoluguri, the man, carrying two pistols, ran out on the road and came in front of the van carrying the 11 students from Kendriya Vidyalaya and Gurukul school in Nazira, Superintendent of Police Bijoy Kuligram told PTI.
As the van stopped, the gunman put his pistol at the driver's head and got inside the vehicle asking him to drive towards Nagaland, Kuligram said.

He then released 10 children at Bihubor before fleeing across the border.
At a distance into the other state, the gunman released the driver telling him the Class eight girl student was being taken as hostage to escape into Nagaland and that she will be returned later safely.
As he was asking the driver of the van with the children to speed up, the man was firing from inside the vehicle at other vehicles to make way, police sources said.
Eye-witnesses and police claimed the man was weeping all the time.
The police have launched a search operation to rescue the girl and nab the culprit.