An officer from the Vaud cantonal police guards the train in which a hostage-taking took place.
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A man armed with an ax and a knife held hostages on a regional train in Switzerland for several hours. He was “fatally injured” when the wagon was stormed.
IIn Switzerland, the hostage-taker was shot dead by the police after several hours of hostage-taking on a regional train. The man, armed with an ax and a knife, was “fatally injured” when police stormed the train on Thursday evening, the police in the canton of Vaud said.
The motive of the man – presumably a 32-year-old asylum seeker from Iran – was initially unclear.
The man had previously taken 15 hostages, 14 passengers and the train driver. The hostages remained unharmed. The hostage-taking took place at the train station in Essert-sous-Champvent, not far from Lake Neuchâtel in western Switzerland.
There was a large police presence at Essert-sous-Champvent train station, the newspaper “24 Heures” reported late in the evening.
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