A SWAT team has been dispatched to a Texan synagogue after a man presumably armed with explosives took four people hostage.
Negotiations continue outside Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, after a man suspected of being armed with backpacks filled with bombs stormed the synagogue while their religious services were being live-streamed.
After holding four people hostage, the man issued a chilling warning to the authorities by saying: “If anyone tries to enter this building, I’m telling you… everyone will die.”
While the situation at the building was still being recorded from within, the terrorist could also be heard repeatedly proclaiming that he’s going to die.
“I’m going to die. Don’t cry about me,” he was heard saying. “Are you listening? I am going to die.”
Though it remains unclear what weapons the assailant has in his possession, it is believed that he is armed with explosives.
Since the police and SWAT teams have besieged the synagogue, the terrorist has also shared his demands.
According to the police, the man demands that convicted Pakistani terrorist Aafia Siddiqui be freed from the US prison where she is kept.
Siddiqui, also known as Lady Al Qaeda, was arrested in Afghanistan back in 2008 after attempting to kill assassinate a US Army Captain. She was also found in possession of deadly chemicals and plans to carry out chemical attacks on the Empire State Building and Brooklyn Bridge.
Though the Texan man who is demanding her release referred to Siddiqui as his ‘sister’, it has since been confirmed that the two are not related and that Siddiqui’s biological brother, Mohammad, is not the suspect.
“The gunman is most definitely not her biological brother. I spoke to Mohammad an hour ago and he is very upset to be implicated in this attack by the hostage-taker,” Mohammad’s attorney, Annette Lamoreaux, confirmed in a statement obtained by MailOnline.
The negotiations remain ongoing.
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