Man Seizes Drugstore in Odessa

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Unable to afford medicine for his sick mother, an armed man in Odessa, Ukraine took control of a drugstore, taking two of the workers hostage in the process. Following some heated discussion with local police, the man eventually gave up and turned himself in. The incident was widely discussed in online Internet forums later that day. Note: Today's news report on the incident comes from a Ukrainian media outlet. As is common in Ukrainian news broadcasts, the anchor at the beginning of the clip is speaking Ukrainian, but the correspondent reporting on the story is speaking Russian.
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