Chinese police shoot dead hostage taker in school siege

By Liu Zhen

A POLICE sniper shot dead a knife-wielding man holding a boy hostage at a school in southwestern China on Friday.

The man had earlier stabbed several pupils at the school in Kunming, Yunnan province, police said in a short statement.

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