Hijacked bus stops at parking lot in Hiroshima Pref.

Hijacked bus stops at parking lot in Hiroshima Pref.

HIROSHIMA, Japan - An expressway bus hijacked by a knife-wielding man in Kyushu stops at a parking lot on the Sanyo Expressway in Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, shortly before 6 p.m. on May 3. Police blocked the expressway to lead the bus into the parking lot and were negotiating with the hijacker, believed to be in his late teens, in the evening. The bus was hijacked at around 1:30 p.m. the same day en route from Saga to Fukuoka and was heading eastward before coming to a stop.

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