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Swiss police fatally shoot Iranian man who seized hostages on train with axe and knife
- Swiss police fatally shot an Iranian man after he took over a train with an axe and knife, holding more than a dozen hostages in western Switzerland.
- The hostage situation occurred on Thursday evening, prompting police to block off the area as the train was halted.
- After nearly four hours and failed negotiations, police intervened, storming the train with over 60 officers.
Swiss police say a 32-year-old Iranian asylum-seeker was killed by police after he used an axe and a knife to seize more than a dozen hostages for several hours on a train in western Switzerland. No passengers were injured.
The man took the hostages early Thursday evening and police, alerted by passengers, sealed off the area while the train was stopped in the town of Essert-sous-Champvert, police in the French-speaking Vaud region said Friday.
The man, speaking Farsi and English, demanded that the train engineer join the 15 hostages.
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Nearly four hours after the incident began, police stormed the train after trying to negotiate with the man through an interpreter. More than 60 police were involved.
Swiss police officers watch the train where a hostage-taking incident took place on Feb. 8, 2024, at Essert-sous-Champvent station in Switzerland. Police say a 32-year-old Iranian man was killed by police after he used an axe and a knife to seize more than a dozen hostages for several hours on a train. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)
«The hostages were all freed safe and sound,» a police statement said. «The hostage-taker was mortally injured during the operation.»
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Vincent Derouand, a spokesperson for the Vaud prosecutors’ office, said an investigation was underway in part to determine the man’s motive.
Hundreds of earthquakes that have rattled the Greek islands since last week have prompted the evacuation of thousands from the tourist hotspot Santorini.
Santorini Mayor Nikos Zorzos told The Associated Press that the tremors are a «seismic swarm» and could continue for weeks before eventually diminishing.
«This phenomenon may play out with small quakes or a single, slightly stronger one, followed by gradual subsidence,» Zorzos said, adding he was cautiously optimistic after speaking to seismologists.
More than 200 undersea earthquakes up to magnitude 5 have been recorded in the volcanic region since Friday.
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Tourists walk on the narrow streets of Fira after an earthquake swarm on the island of Santorini, southern Greece, on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Roughly 9,000 people have left Santorini since Sunday, with more emergency flights and ferries adding services to accommodate departures, the BBC reported.
People wait for the arrival of a regularly scheduled ferry to Athens’ port of Piraeus, after a spike in seismic activity raised concerns about a potentially powerful earthquake in Santorini, southern Greece, on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Santorini has canceled public events, restricted travel to the island and banned construction work in certain areas. The quakes have caused cracks in some older buildings, but no injuries have been reported. The island has a population of approximately 15,500 residents.
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A woman from China looks on from a caldera at Firostefani while authorities are taking emergency measures in response to intense seismic activity on the popular Aegean Sea holiday island of Santorini, southern Greece, on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Efthimios Lekkas, head of the state-run Earthquake Planning and Protection Organization, said the epicenter of the earthquakes in the Aegean was moving northward away from Santorini, and emphasized there was no connection to the area’s dormant volcanoes.
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«This may last several days or several weeks. We are not able to predict the evolution of the sequence in time,» Lekkas told state-run television.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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