Police freed the passengers and arrested the attacker following a 12-hour standoff (Representational)
Kiev, Ukraine:
A person has taken one hostage and was threatening to detonate an explosive machine in a enterprise centre within the Ukrainian capital Kiev on Monday, the inside ministry stated.
The person carrying a backpack entered a financial institution within the Leonardo enterprise centre in central Kiev claiming he had a bomb, deputy inside minister Anton Gerashchenko wrote on Fb.
The person demanded to telephone the police however has let the financial institution staff go away the constructing, Gerashchenko stated.
“Based on preliminary info, a lady who’s the top of financial institution’s department selected to remain within the constructing,” Gerashchenko instructed AFP by telephone.
Regulation enforcement is presently negotiating with the person and has urged him to give up, Gerashchenko stated.
Final month an armed man carrying explosives took 13 passengers hostage on a bus within the western Ukrainian metropolis of Lutsk.
Police freed the passengers and arrested the attacker following a 12-hour standoff after President Volodymyr Zelensky agreed to his demand to submit a film advice on social media.
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