Man claims bomb in Australian hostage standoff
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Australian police cordoned off a building Tuesday in a tense standoff with a man claiming to have a bomb in his backpack and issuing demands from a lawyer's office where he holed up with his teenage daughter, police said.
Police maintained a cordon around the lawyers' office building in the western Sydney area of Parramatta, and workers in nearby office blocks said they had been evacuated. (AP)
