Axe-wielding man is killed by police after seizing 15 hostages on Swiss train
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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 and authorities do not suspect terrorism.
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. Officials negotiated with the suspect on WhatsApp with the help of a Farsi translator.
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