Hostage

The Dutch "Telegraph" writes that the kidnapper was arrested when a hostage went to the door to take the package, but he started to flee.
A kidnapper followed him, but shortly afterwards he was hit by a police car and injured. His condition is not yet known.

According to the officials, about 50 people were then evacuated from the residential building on the ground floor where Sberbank branch is located.
According to Sputnik, the suspect claimed that he was allegedly armed with a "dangerous object", demanding money.
Police, special units, negotiators, as well as ambulance crews were on the site.

Police officers from Greece and other European Union countries took part in a four-day training seminar in Veria, northern Greece about dealing with hostage situations involving terrorists.

Greek police have arrested a 65-year-old man suspected of an aircraft hijacking and kidnapping, crimes committed in 1985 and 1987, they said on Saturday.
Greek media said the man was thought to be involved in the 1985 hijacking of a Trans World Airlines (TWA) flight in which an American passenger was killed.

A police EKAM unit stormed an apartment in the southern Athenian suburb of Nea Smyrni early Thursday morning ending a hostage situation involving a 35-year-old man who held his father at knife-point for 16 hours.
During the raid, the suspect inflicted light wounds on his father's hands before being arrested. The victim was transferred to Elpis hospital for precautionary reasons.

A four-hour hostage standoff in central Paris ended with police moving in, arresting the armed suspect and freeing the people held in a ground-floor office, France's interior minister announced late Tuesday.

"All the hostages are safe and sound," Gerard Collomb said in a brief statement. At least two people had been held.

At least one person was injured on Sept. 21 when a shootout broke out between rival gangs at Istanbul's Çağlayan courthouse.

The gun battle broke out between the opposite sides of a murder trial, which was ongoing at the 10th High Criminal Court at the complex.

Dutch police arrested a man who was captured this morning in a radio station in the city of Hilversum, the Dutch radio-television corporation reported.

An unknown person attacked a bank in the Austrian city Erpfendorf, Tirol, he might have taken hostages inside, reported BGNES, announced from APA Agency.

The bank region is isolated, at the place are working police special forces and the emergency services of the city.

Still it is not clear how many clients and bank officials are in the building.  

Russian authorities breached European human rights laws when they stormed a school seized by Islamist militants in 2004, contributing to the deaths of more than 300 hostages, the continent's rights court ruled on April 13.