Man surrenders in Clinton campaign office hostage drama

A distraught man wearing what appeared to be a bomb walked into a Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign office today and demanded to speak to the candidate during a hostage drama that dragged on for nearly six hours before he surrendered peacefully.

Shortly after releasing the last hostage, Leeland Eisenberg walked out of the storefront office, put down a homemade bomb-like package and was immediately surrounded by a SWAT team with guns drawn.

The suspect, wearing grey trousers, white dress shirt and a red tie, was put on the ground, handcuffed and taken two blocks to the police office in the back of a tactical response vehicle.

The man walked into the office in Rochester, New Hampshire shortly before 1pm (4pm Irish time) and took several hostages, police and witnesses said.

He let a woman with an infant go immediately and at least one other woman got out about two hours later.

Seconds before he surrendered, shortly after 6pm (10pm Irish time), the last hostage walked out of the office. The woman then ran down the street toward the police roadblocks surrounding Clinton’s office.

Police said earlier no one had been injured, and that appeared to still be true at the end.