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Jimmy Lee Dykes, Alabama Hostage Taker, Had Homemade Bombs In Bunker: Report

Ala. Hostage Taker Had Homemade Bombs In Bunker: Report
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This image taken from video and released by RickeyStokesNews.com, on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013 shows an aerial view of the compound owned by 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes. A 5-year-old boy is safe after being held by Dykes for a week in a closet-sized bunker on the compound. The boy was rescued and his captor is dead after federal agents raided the bunker on Monday. The precise location of the bunker is unknown. (AP Photo/Rickey Stokes)

The Alabama bunker in which a young boy was held hostage for a week also had homemade bombs.

CBS News tweeted that Jimmy Lee Dykes, the man who took the 5-year-old hostage, had stored homemade bombs in his underground bunker.

Dykes was killed when authorities invaded the bunker Monday in southeastern Alabama. The 5-year-old was successfully freed.

The boy's grandmother told the Associated Press she fears the crisis will stay with the child for the rest of his life.

"We know he's OK physically, but we don't know how he is mentally," Betty Jean Ransbottom said.

Dykes took the child off a school bus after he shot and killed the driver.

After days of unsuccessful negotiations, authorities stormed the compound.

"He always said he'd never be taken alive," an acquaintance of Dykes, Roger Arnold told the AP. "I knew he'd never come out of there."

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Alabama Hostage Situation
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This photograph released by the Alabama Department of Public Safety shows Jimmy Lee Dykes, a 65-year-old retired truck driver officials identify as the suspect in a fatal shooting and hostage standoff in Midland City, Ala. (AP Photo/Alabama Department of Public Safety) (credit:AP)
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Heavily armed men move away from the suspect's home at the scene of a Dale County hostage scene in Midland City, Ala. on Wednesday Jan. 30, 2013. Authorities were locked in a standoff Wednesday with a gunman authorities say on Tuesday intercepted a school bus, killed the driver, snatched a 6-year-old boy and retreated into a bunker at his home in Alabama. (AP Photo/Montgomery Advertiser, Mickey Welsh) (credit:AP)
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Police vehicles are staged near where a gunman has positioned himself below ground with a child hostage, in Midland City, Ala. on Wednesday Jan. 30, 2013. Authorities were locked in a standoff Wednesday with a gunman authorities say on Tuesday intercepted a school bus, killed the driver, snatched a 6-year-old boy and retreated into a bunker at his home in Alabama. (AP Photo/Montgomery Advertiser, Mickey Welsh) (credit:AP)
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Law enforcement personnel load provisions into a bus during the third day of a hostage crisis involving a 5-year-old boy, in Midland City, Ala, Thursday, Jan 31, 2013. A standoff in rural Alabama went into a second full day Thursday as police surrounded an underground bunker where a retired truck driver was holding a 5-year-old hostage he grabbed off a school bus after shooting the driver dead. The bus driver, Charles Albert Poland Jr., 66, was hailed by locals as a hero who gave his life to protect the 21 students aboard the bus. (AP Photo/The Dothan Eagle, Jay Hare) (credit:AP)
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Members of the FBI team wait, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, in Midland City, Ala. Authorities said they still have an open line of communication with an Alabama man accused of abducting a 5-year-old child and holding him hostage in a bunker since Tuesday, Jan. 29. Sheriff Wally Olson said Saturday that Jimmy Lee Dykes has told them that he has blankets and an electric heater in the bunker. (AP Photo/al.com, Joe Songer) MAGS OUT. (credit:AP)
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Alabama state trooper Kevin Cook, center right, is surrounded by members of the media following a news conference, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, in Midland City, Ala. Authorities said they still have an open line of communication with an Alabama man accused of abducting a 5-year-old child and holding him hostage in a bunker since Tuesday, Jan. 29. Sheriff Wally Olson said Saturday that Jimmy Lee Dykes has told them that he has blankets and an electric heater in the bunker. (AP Photo/al.com, Joe Songer) MAGS OUT. (credit:AP)
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In this undated photo released by the Dale County Board of Education, bus driver Charles Albert Poland, Jr., is shown. A standoff in rural Alabama went into a second full day Thursday as police surrounded an underground bunker where a retired truck driver was holding a 5-year-old hostage he grabbed off a school bus after shooting Poland, the driver dead. Poland Jr., 66, was hailed by locals as a hero who gave his life to protect the 21 students aboard the bus. (AP Photo/ Dale County Board of Education) (credit:AP)
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Alabama state trooper Kevin Cook, center, speaks to media, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, in Midland City, Ala. Authorities said they still have an open line of communication with an Alabama man accused of abducting a 5-year-old child and holding him hostage in a bunker since Tuesday, Jan. 29. Sheriff Wally Olson said Saturday that Jimmy Lee Dykes has told them that he has blankets and an electric heater in the bunker. (AP Photo/al.com, Joe Songer) (credit:AP)
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