Hostage incident ends in Amsterdam

Tuesday, March 12, 2002

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- A man with a machine gun, a pistol and a homemade bomb took 18 people hostage Monday in Amsterdam's tallest building before fatally shooting himself in a bathroom.

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