Live Coverage: Hostage Situation At Clinton Campaign Office in Rochester N.H.

November 30, 2007

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News outlet are reporting a "hostage situation" at HillaryClinton's office in Rochester, in a working-class area of New Hampshire, near the coast. None of the presidential candidates is in New Hampshire today. Here's the early report from a Boston TV station:

BOSTON — Police are responding to a hostage situation at a Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office in New Hampshire.

The incident happened at about 1 p.m. Friday at 28 North Main St. in Rochester, police said.

It was unclear how many people were being held at the facility. Clinton, who is not in New Hampshire, is attending a National Democratic Committee meeting in Virginia.

The St. Elizabeth Seaton School and other surrounding buildings have been locked down.

UPDATE: Barack Obama's campaign has evacuated its field office in Rochester, a spokesman said.

"Our office has been evacuated, as has the surrounding area. Our staff are safe," said Obama spokesman Reid Cherlin.

UPDATE: The AP reports:

ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - A man claiming to have a bomb was holding one or more hostages at Hillary Clinton's campaign office Friday, police said.

Authorities were sending a tactical bomb unit to assist local police, and the area was evacuated, said Maj. Michael Handbrook of New Hampshire State Police.

UPDATE: More detail from WMUR:

ROCHESTER, N.H. — An armed man has taken two campaign workers hostage at the Hillary Clinton campaign office in Rochester, police said.

Officials with the campaign confirmed that there were two workers taken hostage in the office on 28 North Main St.. A woman and her baby told workers at a neighboring business that she was released by the hostage-taker.

"A young woman with a 6-month or 8-month-old infant came rushing into the store just in tears, and she said, 'You need to call 911. A man has just walked into the Clinton office, opened his coat and showed us a bomb strapped to his chest with duct tape,'" witness Lettie Tzizik said.

There are several police officers positioned across the street from the office, crouched down behind cruisers with guns drawn, according to a reported at the scene.

"I walked out and I immediately started running, and I saw that the road was blocked off. They told me run and keep going," said Cassandra Hamilton, who works in an office adjacent to the building.

UPDATE: Hillary has canceled her speech to the DNC in northern Virginia today, Howard Dean just said, according to CNN:

“Unfortunately as some of you know, there is a hostage situation in New Hampshire involving a Clinton campaign staff person," he said. "The details are sketchy at this time, but understandably Senator Clinton is now dealing with this very difficult problem and she is not going to be able to join us today. And we will keep them in our prayers and hope for a resolution to this situation in New Hampshire.”

Source: The Politico

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