(Swiss Info) The man who took over a dozen hostages on a Swiss regional train on Thursday, before being shot dead by police, has been formally identified. But various questions about the event remain open.
As initially reported, the man was an Iranian asylum seeker, aged 32. Contrary to what had been first announced, his case had been assigned to the canton of Geneva and not to Neuchâtel, the Vaud cantonal police said late on Friday afternoon.
The number of hostages was meanwhile 13, not 15, the police added. It also clarified the nature of the weapons carried by the man, who spoke Farsi and English during the incident: not only had he an axe and a knife, but also a hammer.
