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Fourteen passengers and the driver were held by the assailant - who police said was a Farsi and English-speaking 32-year-old Iranian asylum seeker - for nearly four hours, before police officers stormed the train and killed the man.
The motive, as usual, remains a mystery.
ESSERT-SOUS-CHAMPVERT, Switzerland (AP) — 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. 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.
Nearly four hours after the incident began, police stormed the 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.