FOUR German schoolchildren were set free yesterday after being held for more than six hours by a man wielding two knives, police said.

Four German children were freed unharmed tonight after police stormed a house cellar where they had been held for more than five hours by a man wielding two knives.

A man armed with a knife took several schoolchildren hostage in a north-western German town today – pulling them off a bus and holing up in a nearby house.

A man armed with a knife took several schoolchildren hostage in the north-west German town of Ennepetal today, police said.