Reports: Alabama Hostage Situation Over; Boy Unharmed

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Cable news networks and al.com reported Monday that the hostage situation in Midland City, Ala., where a man had been holding a 5-year-old boy in a bunker since last Tuesday, is over, and that the boy has been released. Al.com described the boy’s condition as “unharmed.”

Sources told CNN and Fox News said that the hostage taker, Jimmy Lee Dykes, was dead.

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