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They eventually turned over their guns and a grenade,doudoune moncler pas cher, and then were ordered to the ground as police arrested them, Manuitt said. The pursuit ended less than two hours after the gunmen fled the bank in the ambulance under a deal negotiated with police.
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela - Gunmen who held more than 30 hostages inside a Venezuelan bank for over 24 hours fled in an ambulance and were caught Tuesday along a roadside, where they surrendered and freed their last five captives.
"This nightmare is over," Manuitt told state television.
Saavedra's mother, Jasmin Gonzalez, said her daughter - a 25-year-old teller - volunteered to go. "She's very brave. I know she's going to come out of this fine," Gonzalez said through tears outside the bank.
As for the gunmen,moncler pas cher, Manuitt told state television, "We think they don't have much experience because of the sort of weapons they carry and by their behavior." He said they carried handguns and "a type of grenade."
Gil said he never saw any of the gunmen use drugs and they appeared sober.
"After five or six hours, they began to let down their guard saying,casque beats, 'You aren't going to die,'" freed hostage Juan Carlos Gil told The Associated Press of his captors. "They were nervous, but it was all an atmosphere as if they were everyone's friends."
His account differed from that of Justice Minister Ramon Rodriguez Chacin, who said during the standoff that the gunmen had been taking drugs, making the situation particularly volatile.
Saavedra said she was terrified when the men pointed a gun at a security guard and threatened him. "He went out running and they shot at him" but missed, Saavedra told Caracol. "It was truly horrific."
Officials did not immediately say if the gunmen left with any money.
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It was not immediately known how many hostages were freed as relatives and onlookers massed at the front door of the bank and some were led to waiting ambulances. Bank executive Leon Enrique Cottin said earlier Tuesday that 33 hostages were held captive,abercrombie, but Manuitt said before the siege ended that some 50 hostages were being freed.
One man emerged with a bandaged hand, carrying a girl in his arms, and got into an ambulance.
One of the hostages who later left with the gunmen, Vanessa Saavedra, spoke quietly and haltingly to Colombia's Caracol Radio by cell phone from inside the bank, saying: "We don't want them to shoot ... We don't want them to open fire. Please."
The four gunmen entered a branch of Banco Provincial on Monday morning when a uniformed police officer pulled up to use the cash machine and surprised the would-be robbers,abercrombie and fitch, said Amanda Saldivia, a reporter for the local Guarana Radio FM.
Security cameras captured images of the gunmen until the cameras went dead - apparently cut off by the men and the footage was turned over to authorities, said Cottin, the Venezuela president of Spain's Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, or BBVA, which owns Banco Provincial.
Seven captives made it out of the bank during the standoff, including several who were released and two who fled.
The gunmen first let three hostages go and then negotiated with police while holding on to the last two,burberry pas cher, Guarico state Gov. Eduardo Manuitt said.
A man identified as one of the gunmen who gave his name as Jorge spoke to Caracol during the standoff, saying "people have the sense that we're going to leave."
The standoff in this town southeast of Caracas began Monday morning with a botched robbery. In the final hours, some hostages inside the bank waved signs in the windows with desperate pleas for help and used cell phones to call their relatives.
Police officers with assault rifles took up positions at windows directly above the bank during the standoff, and then stood down at the urging of a hostage as the ambulance pulled up to ferry the group away.
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