Raoul Simons
25 September 2024 10:53am
A gunman hijacked a bus in downtown in Los Angeles and held its passengers hostages during a police chase.
Officers pursued the bus across the city at high speed in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
At one point, the vehicle was driven in the wrong direction on a one-way street and police deployed spike strips in a bid to burst its tyres.
The bus eventually stopped with its path blocked by an armoured vehicle.
Police became locked in a standoff with the gunman, who appeared by holding at least one person hostage.
A witness said: “It looked like the movie ‘Speed’.”
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