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A young woman with a 6-month or 8-month-old infant came rushing into the store just in tears, and she said, 'You need to call 911. A man has just walked into the Clinton office, opened his coat and showed us a bomb strapped to his chest with duct tape'," witness Lettie Tzizik told WMUR TV.
Heavily armed police in black protective vests and helmets patrolled the area near the office. Others were stationed nearby, restraining crowds behind yellow police tape in a large cordon as news helicopters hovered overhead.
New England Cable News television reported that the hostage-taker was a man in his 40s who had apparently strapped highway flares to his body.
Anthony Ejarque, 42, owner of Slims Texmex Saloon in the street where Clinton's red-brick campaign office is located said the police had evacuated 30 to 40 customers and workers from his restaurant.
"They came right in and asked everyone to get up and leave and evacuate the kitchen and everybody," Ejarque said in a telephone interview." There are SWAT teams or whatever they call them now on the street."
Ejarque said it was "very quiet on the street, you really can't see anything, but there apparently is a guy with a bomb in the Hillary building, which is right across the street for us. We managed to sneak back into the building."
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