Bus hijacked and passengers taken hostage in ‘Speed-style’ Los Angeles police chase
A gunman hijacked a bus in downtown in Los Angeles and held its passengers hostage 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 stand-off with the gunman, who appeared by holding at least one person hostage.
A witness said: “It looked like the movie ‘Speed’.”
According to others, armed police were communicating with the suspect through a loudspeaker.
It was initially unclear how many people were on the hijacked bus.
The driver appeared to have been operating the bus under the direction of the armed hijacker, who was reportedly connected to an earlier shooting incident.
