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The Telegraph
The Telegraph
9 Feb 2024
Our Foreign Staff


Swiss police kill Iranian asylum seeker who took 15 hostages on train

Swiss police have said that 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-Champvent, police in the French-speaking Vaud region said on Friday.

The man, speaking Farsi and English, demanded that the train engineer join the 15 hostages.

Almost four hours after the incident began, police stormed the train after trying to negotiate with the man through an interpreter. More than 60 officers were involved.

Police block a road leading to a train station in Essert-Sous-Champvent, western Switzerland, on February 8, 2024. A hostage situation on a train in the west of Switzerland ended with the suspect killed in a police raid and the hostages safely freed, authorities said.
Officers blocked a road leading to the train station at Essert-sous-Champvent Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty

“The hostages were all freed safe and sound,” a police statement said. “The hostage-taker was mortally injured during the operation.”

Vincent Derouand, a spokesman for the Vaud prosecutors’ office, said an investigation was underway in part to determine the man’s motive.