A knife-wielding Arkansas man was arrested after hijacking a school bus filled with kids then leading police on a wild pursuit.

A man armed with a knife took 11 elementary school children and their bus driver hostage in Jacksonville, Ark. Thursday morning during a carjacking that ended in an approximately ten-mile chase, police said.

Fortunately, no one was injured in the incident and “all 11 children are safe and with their parents,” said April Kiser, a spokeswoman for the Jacksonville Police Department.

Jacksonville Police said Nicholas John Miller, 22, a resident of the city, was on North First Street at around 7 a.m. Thursday morning when he demanded a car from a woman walking along the street knifepoint, but the woman did not have a car to give him.

Miller then turned to a elementary school bus that had made a routine stop at a nearby apartment complex, Jacksonville Police Captain Kenny Boyd said. Knife in hand, Miller got on the bus and made the driver flee the scene before taking over driver's seat himself.

Courtesy Jacksonville Police Department Suspect Nicholas John Miller