Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said 13 Norwegians were involved in the hostage situation.
According to reports, one police officer described a scene resembling a hostage situation, with the gunman pointing a weapon at the victims' heads.
The hostage situation began Friday afternoon, police said, but it was unclear how old the children are or their relationship to the man.
Was this supposed to be a hostage situation that went wrong?
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Two hours later, the hostage situation was still ongoing, WSFA reported.
Mr Hammond said the government had received information that the hostage situation had been brought to an end and that there had been "further loss of life".
The hostage situation occurred after firefighters began around 3:40 p.m.
Even as the hostage situation continued Monday morning, plenty of police were on hand as schools in neighboring Ozark, Alabama, reopened for the first time since the incident began.
Grant also testified that Curtis' ex-wife said Curtis once told her that he was in hostage situation in Chicago in 1991 after a breaking up with a former girlfriend.
And the fact that it allows for this dollar-for-dollar requirement that is completely confected, but has created a hostage situation in terms of our economy, it even does that.
"Based on our discussions with Mr. Dykes, he feels like he has a story that's important to him, although it's very complex, " Olson said Monday before the hostage situation ended.
Mr. Panetta, in London for a scheduled visit, discussed the hostage situation with Mr. Cameron in a talk that was more about policy than tactics, a senior U.S. defense official said.
Global security will be high on the agenda too, its importance - to both companies and governments, citizens and employees alike - highlighted by the Algerian hostage situation and the subsequent shoot-out that in the end cost so many lives.
And he will not engage in a negotiation with Congress that as some advocates of this themselves have described as a hostage situation -- a hostage situation that would result, as it did in the summer of 2011, in great harm to this economy and great harm to American businesses and great harm to average Americans.
The situation with oil workers taken hostage in Algeria puts a "dark cloud" over the country's production, an international energy body has said.
Mr Salmond described the hostage incident as "a hugely serious situation" and said he knew the Scottish Parliament was united in condemning the attack and in hoping for the early and safe release of the hostages.
We will not have a situation where people will hold the American economy hostage in order to achieve a specific agenda -- at least not until 2013.
Papers throughout the world have made the connection between the French military operation in Mali and the hostage crisis in Algeria, and expressed concern over the deteriorating security situation in the region.
"This was a classic, textbook situation, " said Clint Van Zandt, a former FBI negotiator who worked with the hostage rescue team repeatedly before retiring in 1995.
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