(Swiss Info) Swiss police said a 32-year-old Iranian asylum seeker armed with an axe and a knife held 15 hostages on a train between Baulmes and Yverdon-les-Bains in western Switzerland for almost four hours, until police stormed the train and killed the man late on Thursday evening.
The police stormed the train around 10.15pm, allowing the release of all the hostages. The attacker was killed during the police intervention. Authorities said that there is no indication of a terrorist motive.
The hostage-taking began around 6.35pm, said Vaud police. The assailant, armed with an axe and a knife, forced the train driver to leave his post to join the 14 passengers in the train, which had stopped with its doors closed at the Essert-sous-Champvent station, between Baulmes and Yverdon-les-Bains.
