06/09/2011 10:27
Hostage situation near Sydney court
A man with a suspicious backpack - possibly a bomb - is holding a child at a courthouse in a suburb of Sydney in Australia, BBC reported citing local media.
Police have sealed off the area in Parramatta, with one official saying that there is "a hostage situation".
Some reports say the man is holding his 11-year-old daughter. Details of the incident remain
sketchy.
This comes a month after a fake bomb was strapped to a teenager at her home in Sydney.
Bomb experts took 10 hours to remove the device from the neck of 18-year-old Madeleine Pulver. Officers later described the device as a very elaborate fake.
A suspect was detained in the US, and is awaiting extradition to Australia.