Across Asia: Turkey
China Daily | Updated: 2009-05-14 07:40
Robber holds staff, held
Police overpowered and detained an armed assailant who had held more than a dozen people hostage in an attempted bank robbery in western Turkey yesterday, state-run Anatolian news agency reported.
It said health workers had entered the bank in the Aegean tourist resort of Kusadasi to tend to nine of the hostages.
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