From the Boston Globe:
A man walked into Hillary Clinton’s campaign office in Rochester, N.H., this afternoon with what looked like a bomb strapped to his body and is holding two volunteers hostage, according to police and a campaign official.
The man walked into the office on North Main Street at about 12:55 p.m., said Captain Anthony Colarusso of the Dover Police Department, which is part of a regional tactical response team. Police have been in contact with the man inside the office, Colarusso said.
Bill Shaheen, a top state campaign official, said that the man was holding two volunteers hostage, according to the Associated Press.
According to television reports, heavily armed police holding riot shields and wearing helmets arrived on the street in an armored truck at about 3 p.m. Nearby businesses have been evacuated.
Rochester police Captain Paul Callahan said in a live interview on New England Cable News that police received a call just after 1 p.m.
“Right now we are handling this as a hostage situation,” Callahan said.
Callahan would not say whether the person had a weapon or how many people were being held hostage. Clinton is not in New Hampshire today. She is scheduled to speak at the Democratic Party’s annual fall meeting in Vienna, Va. [JAMES PINDELL - Boston Globe]
MSNBC is reporting that the campaigns of Barack Obama, John Edwards, Mitt Romney and John McCain, all of whom have nearby offices, have either been evacuated or are “on lockdown.”
In politics things get dirty, and the words can be harsh, but it should never turn to violence or threats of physcial injury. I hope and pray this will be resolved without anyone being harmed.
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