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| Gunmen Hijack Bus in Northern Italy |
| 2007-05-15 |
| Three gunmen hijacked a bus in northern Italy on Tuesday and set it on fire after freeing the passengers, officials said. An off-duty police officer was reportedly injured. The bus was traveling south from Alessandria to Acqui Terme, cities southwest of Milan, when the gunmen took it over and forced the driver to turn onto a road heading in the opposite direction, a Carabinieri paramilitary police official in nearby Novara said. An off-duty police officer who was on board tried to intervene and was stabbed, but was not seriously wounded, the ANSA news agency said. The gunmen allowed the passengers to get off the bus when it returned to Alessandria, but forced the driver to keep driving to the outskirts of Novara, Sky TG24 reported from the scene. The hijackers exchanged gunfire with police when the bus stopped, then set it ablaze before fleeing, the Carabinieri official said. One of the gunmen was apprehended and authorities were seeking the other two, the official said. The official said the gunman who was apprehended was being treated for an unspecified injury. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #7 "This bus is going to Havana!" |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2007-05-15 22:31 |
| #6 Yup, you just gotta' watch out fer us Lutherans! After all, Uncle Martin started the whole protest thingie what all with nailin' them credos to the door o' the local Catholic big churchie buildin' and then goin's off and marryin hisself a bride o' Christ and all. Why, we could prob'ly give thems jihadis a run fer their money in the whole religiousity war stuff. Us'n the Papists, that is (and if they starts foolin' around in Italy why, they mights just find theyselves runnin' afoul o' the Church and the Mafia and that'd be a bad, bad thing from the jihadis point o' view). |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2007-05-15 18:18 |
| #5 Dry run? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-05-15 17:23 |
| #4 Update (Reuters): The police initially thought the hijackers were of north African origin but said one of those arrested was an Albanian. |
| Posted by: mrp 2007-05-15 16:32 |
| #3 According to a Reuters wire report, Italian authorities believe the gunmen to be "North Africans". |
| Posted by: mrp 2007-05-15 16:24 |
| #2 "the gunman who was apprehended was being treated for an unspecified injury" I hope it was a boot up the ass. Pesky Lutherans! |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-05-15 15:45 |
| #1 A Reuters wire reported that authorities believe the gunmen were "North Africans". |
| Posted by: mrp 2007-05-15 14:57 |