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All hostages in Texas synagogue attack safe; attacker dead

All of the four hostages held at a synagogue in Texas have been freed unharmed by the man who took them captive, the state's governor Greg Abbott said on Sunday, ending a tense ten-hour-long standoff.

A man had disrupted religious services at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas and taken at least four people hostage, including the rabbi.