Armed Iranian Asylum Seeker Holding 13 People Hostage on Swiss Train Shot Dead: Police

Authorities in Switzerland say an asylum seeker was killed by police after he used an axe, a hammer, and a knife to take a dozen passengers and the mechanic of a train hostage. In a statement on Feb. 9, police in the European country’s Vaud region confirmed that the 32-year-old man was an asylum seeker of Iranian nationality whose file was assigned to the canton of Geneva, a global banking hub home to one of the four major offices of the United Nations. The man—who spoke only Farsi and English—took control of the train on Feb. 8 at around 6:35 p.m. local time by taking the train’s operator and 12 passengers hostage, police said....