CBS: Boy, 3, Killed In Cambodia Siege
Masked gunmen seized dozens of children at an international school in northwestern Cambodia on Thursday, killing a 3-year-old Canadian boy and threatening to shoot the others one-by-one before police freed the remaining hostages, authorities officials said. The attackers stormed Siem Reap International School Thursday morning, taking students from several countries hostage and demanding money, weapons and a vehicle before police ended the six-hour standoff, taking four gunmen into custody, at least one of whom was wounded. The gunmen shot the boy when authorities declined to meet all of their demands, then "threatened to kill the other children one-by-one," said Information Minister Khieu Kanharith, quoting the deputy national police chief, Neth Savoeun. "Then our forces decided to storm the school," said Khieu Kanharith, who described the victim as a 3-year-old Canadian boy. Embassy officials could not immediately confirm that, but a witness who knew the child also identified him as Canadian...A Western resident in Siem Reap, who demanded anonymity, said she was told by a teacher at the school that the children, most of them aged 2 to 6, came from Cambodia, Italy, Indonesia, South Korea, the United States, Japan, Ireland, Singapore, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Switzerland.