NEW DELHI: Authorities rescued 23 children after killing a man who held them, hostage, for nearly 11 hours after inviting them to his home for his daughter’s birthday party in northern India, police said on Friday. Home Secretary Avanish Awasthi said Batham’s wife was also killed in the exchange of gunfire. Agarwal said he was a suspect in a murder case and had been freed on bail by a court. The incident occurred in Farrukhabad, a small town 300 kilometers southwest of Lucknow, the state capital. The motive for Batham taking the children hostage was not immediately known.

Source: Pakistan Today January 31, 2020 09:45 UTC