(Reuters) - U.S. authorities rushed into (Monday) in rural Alabama an underground bunker, and deliver being held for nearly a week, a 5-year-old boy let his kidnappers death.
More than 6 days of confrontation, the federal bureau of investigation agents into bunkers, they worry about the children is "imminent danger", in his kidnappers hand, who killed the school bus driver, said Steve Richardson, specialized responsible for acting in mobile Alabama.
The kidnapper, 65 - year - old uncle Jimmy lee dike, after authorities found to provide drugs, coloring books and toys, kindergarten student, he is due to last Wednesday to celebrate his birthday.
However, in the 24 hours before the agent into the shelter of the deterioration of the negotiations, Richardson told a news conference.
: "Sir Dam observation with a gun, the fbi agent said."
Law enforcement officials would not confirm (Monday) how to embankment is dead.
Hold the southeast Alabama a rural corner fear, form the local schools, and make sure the boy only RuanJingTian prayers and vigil.
All account, the dam him from the bus random, strengthen has put forward about the American school safety and gun violence attention, since December shooting twenty young children died in Connecticut elementary school six adult.
"It's just tell you how to close it," a levee neighbor, 42-year-old angie Adams said, violence, she now plans to a day of family, school, and her two-year-old daughter.
"We've been waiting for ten years, have her, we will be destroyed" one thousand what happened, Adams said.
Midland near the city's drama began, the dam in the navy, a retired truck driver in the Vietnam war, on the school bus transport more than twenty children home Tuesday and requirements, the driver to let the students get off, according to authorities.
Body safe
When the driver Charles Albert Poland, 66, refused, embankment 9 mm pistol shot him four times with the local public security department officials said.
"Polish Sir Family, we want to express our condolences and sympathy," dell's county sheriff wally olson said. "In addition, we appreciate the hero who through his brave action has saved many lives."
Dike children escaped to a homemade bunkers, and equipped with a TV set and electric heater man's property, shut down a dirt road. Authorities did not want to confirm, news reports said negotiator keep contact barrier discussion through the PVC tube connected to the underground shelter.
Children in the local hospital for treatment, but the body appear safe, Richardson said. It is said that he had asperger syndrome and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
"He smiled, joking, playing, eating," Richardson said. "He is very brave, he is very lucky."
A local law enforcement sources said, a vertigo or flash grenades off, release the boy's part of the operation, but did not immediately released further details.
On Monday night, bomb technical staff to clean up the scene of the crime, looking for explosive, the FBI special agents Jason bag. Authorities said the investigation may take several days to complete.
Law enforcement personnel to provide the bank some opinions and negotiations, before his rescue.
Dell county sheriff wally olson said that the gunman had a "very complicated" story to tell.
"According to our discussion embankment Sir, he feels he has a story, this is important, but it is very complicated," olson said, without elaborating.
According to a neighbor of levee move to midland municipal districts about two years ago, often see patrol property, he lives in a trailer with a gun and a flashlight, in the night.
He had since the last Wednesday of the trial, the judge recently arrested, he became strong enough in the responsible for one of his neighbors.
Another neighbor, he said, he grew up together of the embankment, and service in the navy at about the same time, doubt court cases, may cause the collapse.
"When he was abducted children, he's afraid of losing his property, his right, his freedom, go to jail," said MEL Adams, who owns a used car lot.



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