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Relief expressed now that Alabama child hostage is safe
Posted: 02.05.2013 at 7:22 AM
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FBI Bureau Chief in Mobile, Steve Richardson, left, gives a statement to the media following the end of the hostage crisis in Midland City, Ala.  / AP photo
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A six-day standoff between police and a man holding a young boy hostage in an underground bunker ended when police killed the man and rescued the boy.

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