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Three women taken hostage in Fuzhou

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-03-23 14:14

FUZHOU -- A man took three women hostage with a knife inside a pawn shop in Fuzhou, capital city of southeast China's Fujian Province, local police said Monday morning.

The hostage taking began at around 8 am and the incentive was not clear at the moment, a police officer told Xinhua.

Police have cordoned off the shop and ambulances were summoned to the site.