{"id":1676,"date":"2013-04-04T15:16:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T14:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/up\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/04\/russian-man-takes-hostages-demands-pizza-and-sprit\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T16:37:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T15:37:30","slug":"russian-man-takes-hostages-demands-pizza-and-sprit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/russian-man-takes-hostages-demands-pizza-and-sprit\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian man takes hostages, demands pizza and Sprit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A MAN in southern Russia took four people hostage for several hours yesterday in a bizarre abduction where his only demand was a takeaway pizza and Sprite, police said. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A man, apparently armed with a pistol and explosives, burst into a college in the city of Astrakhan located 1500 kilometres southeast of Moscow, and took four people hostage.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>After several hours he released the two female students, a teacher and a security guard unharmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;His only demand was a pizza and Sprite,&#8221; police spokesman Pyotr Rusanov said, adding that the hostage taker had barricaded himself and his hostages in a classroom. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Police cordoned off the building and met the man&#8217;s demands by delivering the requested food and drink, he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>After the negotiations that lasted several hours, all the hostages were released unharmed, another regional spokeswoman said, adding the hostage taker himself was detained.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The teacher described the assailant as a man aged around 30, Mr Rusanov said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The teacher said the man had a pistol on him but could not say whether it was real. Regional police said the man also apparently had an explosive device in a box.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A MAN in southern Russia took four people hostage for several hours yesterday in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,56],"tags":[71,2054,2053,368,2055,1625,2056,2052],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creazyworld","category-news","tag-and","tag-demands","tag-hostages","tag-man","tag-pizza","tag-russian","tag-sprit","tag-takes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3333,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/3333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}