Child hostage in armed siege

[13 August 2008]

A six-year old girl has been held hostage in a North Yorkshire house for a second night in a row, with a man believed to be armed with knives.

The man, who is in his 30s, barricaded himself in a residential property in Scarborough on Monday night. Police negotiators are in the house, trying to talk to the man who is in the bedroom with the girl. A number of police and a paramedic team are positioned outside the house.

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