Germany: Hostage-taker surrenders

A teenager with a pistol who seized four youngsters at a school in south west Germany and demanded a one million euro ransom surrendered after freeing the hostages unharmed, police said.

After the stand-off at the school in Waiblingen, near Stuttgart, ended at about 9.20pm local time last night, police said that the weapon turned out to be an air pistol, which fires pellets that can cause serious injury or possibly kill at close range.