Army spokesman Major-General Athar Abbas says that commando forces immediately surrounded the compound in an effort to secure the safe release of the hostages.
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He was immediatelysurrounded by a crowd including a policeman, soldiers, a customs officer and reporters.
He was coming into the capital for his final campaign rally and when he stopped outside Waterloo police station, our rendezvous point, and stepped out of his car, he was immediatelysurrounded, even in this small place, by hundreds of people.