Police freed the hostages an American by post to Facebook

A resident of the U.S. city of Salt Lake City, who along with his son polutoragodovalym five days remained a hostage in her apartment, managed to escape by leaving a message with an appeal for help in the social network Facebook, reports Associated Press.

According to preliminary reports, the woman and her child taken hostage by a 33-year-old Troy Kritchfild, the man took a woman's cell phone.

"Hostage managed to hide in a closet with a laptop, with which it came into Facebook and wrote that she would die along with his son, if it does not come to help," - said a police sergeant, John Arnold.

One to read this post reported it to police, who came to check the status of women.

"Facebook was the only means of communication at her home. It so happened that she was able to use it" - said Arnold.

Arrived with the police detained the test outfit Kritchfilda. He is now in the city jail.

Recall that last year it was reported that a resident of the United Kingdom Sarah Lintern was diagnosed with a serious illness because she posted a photo on the popular networking site Facebook.