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Beijing police frees boy from hostage taker 
(Xinhua) 
 
Updated: 2009-08-30 21:50 BEIJING: Beijing police freed a schoolboy who was taken hostage by a young man at a training school Sunday afternoon. 
 Police seized the man amid a negotiation with him one and a half hours after the hostage incident took place. The boy was saved unhurt. The hostage taker, surnamed Tang, 23, is a native from Ziyang, Southwest China's Sichuan province. He did not ask for money but demanded a meeting with officials from local television station, witnesses said. Police are still investigating the case.  |