JEANNE MESERVE, CNN ANCHOR: A 28-hour hostage siege at a day- care center in Luxembourg is over: 25 children and three teachers were freed after an armed assault that left the lone hostage-taker critically injured. Here's 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, PRIME MINISTER OF LUXEMBOURG: 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: 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. (voice-over): 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.
Luxembourg Police Shoot Hostage-Taker, Free Children and Teachers