Child in hostage drama saved


KOTA KINABALU: A man held a toddler at knife point for almost five hours, causing bleeding gashes on her neck before he attempted to throw her out a window on the fourth floor of a block of flats.

A police sharpshooter shot the man dead and saved the little girl.

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Courts & Crime , standoff , hostage , police , knife

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