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Mobile Detective Unit (Buser) officers from the Gresik Regency Police in East Java shot and killed a hostage-taker on Jl. Veteran, near the Gresik Military Command (Kodim) office, on Wednesday.
Gresik Military Command personnel division head Capt. Suwanto said the hostage situation had taken place for more than two hours before the hostage-taker, identified as Fuad Ahmad, from Lombok, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara, was killed after members of the Buser team shot him twice.
Your comments:
So at that stage the perpetrator was alone in the car with a knife. The officers then tried to enter the car and he resisted, so they shot him.
Why did they not shoot the tires first and just wait for him to come out eventually?
Because this was a quicker way or because the officers were in a state of rage and panic?
Putting themselves in unnecessary danger first can hardly be procedure.
Mangu
I don't know what to say. I appreciate the military and police for solving the problem.
They do a great job; they made a good decision on shooting the hostage-taker.
But at the same time, I'm disappointed that no one seemed to pay any attention to what the hostage- taker was saying.
I saw on TV that the man told police that he had been threatened by someone who wanted to kill him. I think that's why he took a hostage; perhaps the military and the police could have helped him out?
Ricky
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