Brussels - 20-Hour Hostage

 

Brussels - A 55-year-old man who held his two-year-old daughter hostage on the 17th floor of the Tulip Inn hotel at Place Rogier in central Brussels, demanding medical help for her is being questioned now by police after they ended the siege without violence.

 

Police have not confirmed the man's identity or nationality but said the man was Jewish and police had asked a rabbi in the nearby city of Antwerp to negotiate with him but the hostage situation had ended before he could arrive.