GLENN VAN ZUTPHEN, WORLD NEWS: A hostage siege at a Luxembourg child care center is over. All of the children and the teachers inside have been reunited with their families. But the hostage taker is in hospital in good condition - rather in critical condition. For more on this story, here is CNN's Patricia Kelly.</s>PATRICIA KELLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Smiling, happy children reunited with their ecstatic parents - 25 children kept captive in a day care center escaped to safety after the gunman holding them hostage was shot by a police sniper. He was led to believe his demands for a car to the airport and a plane out of the country would be met.</s>JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER, LUXEMBOURG PRIME MINISTER: We had to stop the man before he was able to enter the car, and we managed to do so. There were, as far as I know, two shots and the man is seriously harmed.</s>KELLY: Uniformed police carried the children to safety, the youngest just 22 months old. The man with dual Luxembourg and Tunisian citizenship was armed with a hand grenade, a knife and a gun. Said to have suffered psychiatric problems when his own children were taken into state care, he's said to have blamed the day care center as the source of his problems. Friends and neighbors said they were sure he was not capable of harming the hostages.</s>NUNOR SOUSA, FAMILY FRIEND (through translator): He wants to leave Luxembourg. He wants to go to Tunisia. He wants to live his life again. He wants to take his children with him, start at zero and start a new life.</s>KELLY: Police said he told them he wanted the plane to fly to Libya. (on camera): It was over in a matter of minutes. But the gunman did achieve one of his objectives - to draw attention to the injustices he believes have been inflicted on him and his family. Patricia Kelly, CNN, Wasserbillig, Luxembourg.
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