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Flashpoint
Just before 0900 GMT, emergency workers entered the school to recover the bodies of dead hostages.

Minutes later, explosions and gunfire were heard and, at about 0915 GMT, a group of hostages of different ages managed to escape.

Investigators say the first explosion happened as the hostage-takers were rewiring the explosives. But some witnesses have suggested the hostage-taker holding the detonator was shot.

After a second large explosion the roof caved in and hostages started to run.
 

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