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Police shoot dead bus hijacker
(Asianewsphoto)
Updated: 2008-06-20 14:14
 
 
A man with a 30-centimetre-long (11.8-inch) knife holds a woman seated in front of him hostage on the No. 20 bus while policemen check the situation in Guiyang, Guizhou province, June 18, 2008. Police in southwest China said early Thursday they had shot dead the man who held the woman hostage at knifepoint on a bus and asked for guns, ammunition and money, Xinhua News Agency reported. [Asianewsphoto]