Police with automatic weapons go into a building where a man is believed to be holding a teenage girl hostage in Sydney
12 April 2012
A tense stand-off with a man claiming to have a bomb in a lawyer's office in Sydney has ended safely.
Australian police said they took the 52-year-old man into custody about 12 hours after the incident began.
The man's 12-year-old daughter had been with him in the office, and police said she was released unharmed.
The man had told police he had a bomb in his backpack. Officers did not say whether an explosive device was found.
