By THERESE BALDERAS
Staff Writer
Children held hostage in Lucknow, India for 11 hours. The man who held them hostage had them over for his daughter’s birthday and continued to hold them hostage in his basement for hours after that. When the police showed up to rescue the kids there were shots were fired between the police and the man, who is identified as Subhash Batham. He injured the two police officers with his firearm but didn’t kill them. Police reported that the man was under the influence of alcohol during that occurrence. The children were rescued but during this incident, Subhash’s wife was killed during the back-and-forth gunfire, she tried to escape and the villagers beat her to death. Subhash was also killed during this incident but the children are safe.
Picture of police officers rescuing one of the children
Source: USA Today
