Bus hijacked, passengers taken hostage in Los Angeles

A gunman hijacked a bus in downtown in Los Angeles and held its passengers hostages during a police chase, Report informs referring to The Telegraph.

Officers pursued the bus across the city at high speed in the early hours of September 25 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 standoff 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.