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Swiss police fatally shot a 32-year-old Iranian man on Thursday after he seized over a dozen hostages on a train, wielding an axe and a knife. No passengers were injured.
ESSERT-SOUS-CHAMPVERT, Switzerland (AP) — 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. 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.