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Man with knife takes over bus, Berlin police sayThird such incident in recent weeks ends without injury
BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- A man with a knife seized a public bus in Berlin on Sunday -- the third such hijacking in less than three weeks. He took hostage the driver and three passengers for about 45 minutes, until police entered the bus and ended the takeover, Berlin police said. No one was injured, authorities said. At 8:27 p.m. Sunday, a man inside the bus, which was headed toward Tegel airport in western Berlin, pulled a knife, and all the bus' doors were locked, police said. Police were called to the scene, though it was not clear who called them, along with officers trained in hostage situations. The bus sat in a square in the northern district of Reinickendorf, and negotiations began. At 9:14 p.m., police managed to "ram the doors in," a spokesman told CNN. The situation ended soon after. The identity of the hijacker was not known. On Friday, a Lebanese man armed with a gas pistol hijacked a bus in Bremen, northwestern Germany. He demanded the release of four al Qaeda operatives and said he was expressing support for the Arab men who carried out the attacks of September 11, 2001, in the United States. After seven hours, he surrendered with no shots fired. (Full story) Two weeks earlier, a man hijacked a bus in Berlin after taking part in a bank robbery, and was stopped by a policewoman on board, police said. No one was injured.
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