Students taken hostage in Tehran

A gunman took students and teachers hostage and warned he would detonate the explosives if the government did not fulfil his demands.

A gunman took hundreds of students and teachers hostage in a high school in Tehran, witnesses said.

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The man, with a grenade belt, warned he would detonate the explosives if the government did not fulfil his demands, the witnesses said. The demands were not immediately known.