2013 Alabama bunker hostage crisis
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2013-alabama-bunker-hostage-crisis-170-11359409
title:
2013 Alabama bunker hostage crisis
text:
On January 29, 2013, a hostage crisis, lasting almost seven days, began in the Wiregrass Region near U.S. Highway 231 in Midland City, Alabama. Jimmy Lee Dykes, a 65-year-old Vietnam War-era veteran, boarded a Dale County school bus, killed the driver, and took a five-year-old boy hostage. On the afternoon of February 4, law enforcement agents entered the bunker, killed Dykes, and rescued the child.
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2013 American murder and hostage crisis
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Alabama_bunker_hostage_crisis
date created:
2013-02-02T03:20:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T00:42:44Z
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