Australian Police Race to Defuse Bomb Strapped Around Neck of 18 YO Member of Wealthy Family

URGENT: Hostage situation in Syndey, Australia suburb, involving 18 year old daughter of wealthy family. The word is the young woman has a bomb strapped around her neck.

Four bomb squad officers have entered a house in a wealthy suburb of Sydney where a terrified teenage girl has had an explosive device strapped to her body by a balaclava-clad intruder.
Police said a 'delicate operation' was taking place in a property in the suburb of Mosman where wealthy families including bankers, stockbrokers, sports personalities and company directors live.

A senior police officer described the device as an unusual 'collar bomb', which has never been seen before in Australia, but an exact description has yet to be officially given. Assistant police commissioner Mark Murdoch said the 'life of the young girl was potentially at risk'. Source

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Madeleine Pulver, 18, whose father was president and CEO of global research firm NetRatings in New York, was the victim of a balaclava-clad intruder who strapped a bomb to her body in Sydney, Australia. Police said a 'delicate operation' took place to free her. The family had recently moved back to Australia from New York.