A MAN driven by a grudge against his former employer led the assault on a Cambodian school, taking dozens of children hostage and shooting a crying two-year-old Canadian boy in the head, police said yesterday.

A man who allegedly led an assault on an international school in Cambodia, taking dozens of children hostage and shooting dead a two-year-old Canadian boy, may have been motivated by a grudge against a former employer, police said today.

MASKED gunmen seized dozens of children at an international school in north-western Cambodia yesterday, killing a Canadian toddler.

Masked gunmen seized dozens of children at an international school in north-western Cambodia today, killing a three-year-old Canadian boy and threatening to shoot the others one-by-one before police rescued the remaining hostages, police and government officials said.