“The hostages had been all launched unhurt,” police within the Vaud canton stated in a press release on Friday that solely recognized the person as an Iranian asylum seeker. “The hostage taker was fatally wounded in the course of the intervention.”
The ordeal started round 6:35 p.m. native time, after the practice driver was compelled to depart his publish and be part of the opposite passengers. Police stated the hostage taker spoke a combination of Farsi and English.
Alerted by folks trapped on the practice, round 60 officers arrived on the scene quickly after and closed off the world, about 40 miles west of the Swiss capital of Bern.
Negotiations with the hostage-taker had been carried out with the assistance of a Farsi interpreter and partially over the messaging service WhatsApp on hostages’ cellphones. At a press briefing following the incident, Vaud canton police spokesman Jean-Christophe Sauterel stated authorities finally determined to storm the practice and carried out a maneuver that saved the person away from the hostages.
“A hostage-taker stormed in direction of the emergency staff along with his ax, a police officer used his weapon to guard the hostages and fatally hit the perpetrator,” Sauterel stated. The person died on the scene.
The hostages obtained medical and psychological care and had been taken to a police station and had been questioned. Kin had been additionally ready for them.
The motive behind the incident stays unclear, in line with police.
