The young boy held hostage in Alabama is safe and well after being freed by police.<br/> <br />The 5-year-old, identified only as Ethan, was held for almost a week before police stormed the bunker where a kidnapper held him hostage.<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE: STEVE RICHARDSON, FBI SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE, SAYING (English):<br/> <br />"I can tell you that I've been to the hospital. I have visited with Ethan. He is doing fine. He is laughing, joking, playing, eating, the things that you would expect a normal five to six-year-old young man to do. He's very brave, he's very lucky and his success story is that he is out safe and doing great."<br/> <br />The abductor - named as 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes - died in the operation.<br/> <br />Officials have yet to confirm how he lost his life, saying it's part of an ongoing investigation.<br/> <br />The incident began last Tuesday (January 29) when Dykes boarded a school bus and shot the driver before abducting the boy.<br/> <br />Police say they stormed his homemade bunker as the child was in danger.
