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The F.B.I. is at a Texas synagogue where an official says four people appear to have been taken hostage by a man heard shouting on a livestream.

Saturday, January 15, 2022 7:27 PM EST

One of the hostages at the Congregation Beth Israel, a synagogue in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, is a rabbi, the official said.

An F.B.I. spokeswoman said that nearby residents had been evacuated, but she declined to say if the man holding the hostages was armed.

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