A MAN who marched into a Sydney law office with his daughter and said he had a bomb in his backpack was taken into custody yesterday after a tense, 12-hour standoff with police.

Australian police cordoned off a building today in a tense stand-off with a man claiming to have a bomb in his backpack and issuing demands from a lawyer’s office where he holed up with his teenage daughter, police said.

A “BACK from the dead” backpacker who was lost in the Australian bush for 12 days was last night recovering in hospital after he was found by chance by two hikers.