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Airport hostage incident over quickly
By Li Xinran |
February 20, 2009, Friday
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A MAN fired a gun and tried to take a woman hostage in an incident at an airport in Chengdu, the capital of southwestern China's Sichuan Province, last night.
The Sichuan airport authority said the man fired a gun twice at about 9.20pm near a security check in the departure hall of the Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport.
The man, identified as Jiang Jun, then grabbed a female passenger and ran to a passageway but was immediately wrestled down by security guards. The hostage was released unhurt.
Jiang, 23, is from Sichuan's Yanting County and police said he was carrying a starting pistol and three bullets which he had bought on-line and received that very day.
Police investigations are continuing.
Flight schedules were not affected by the incident.
The Sichuan airport authority said the man fired a gun twice at about 9.20pm near a security check in the departure hall of the Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport.
The man, identified as Jiang Jun, then grabbed a female passenger and ran to a passageway but was immediately wrestled down by security guards. The hostage was released unhurt.
Jiang, 23, is from Sichuan's Yanting County and police said he was carrying a starting pistol and three bullets which he had bought on-line and received that very day.
Police investigations are continuing.
Flight schedules were not affected by the incident.
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