Train Hostage Crisis: Iranian Asylum Seeker Shot Dead in Dramatic Police Standoff
BERLIN, Germany – Swiss police shot and killed an Iranian asylum seeker who had taken 15 people hostage on a train in the town of Essert-sous-Champvent in the Swiss canton of Vaud. The 32-year-old man, armed with an ax and knife, held the hostages for nearly four hours on Thursday night. According to authorities, the hostages were all released unharmed, but the hostage-taker was fatally wounded during the police intervention. The ordeal began at approximately …