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5-year-old joking, laughing, after 7-day hostage siege
Updated On: 06 February, 2013 07:23 AM IST | | Agencies
The Alabama boy was reunited with his family after FBI agents stormed the bunker in which he had been held and shot his captor Jimmy Lee Dykes dead
The five-year-old boy held hostage in a week-long standoff in Alabama is in good spirits and apparently unharmed after being reunited with his family at a hospital, according to his family and law enforcement officials.
The boy, identified only as Ethan, was rescued by the FBI Monday afternoon after they rushed the underground bunker where suspect Jimmy Lee Dykes (65) was holding him. Dykes was killed in the raid and the boy was taken away from the bunker in an ambulance. Officials have not yet provided any further details on the raid.

