Hijacker captured after police commandos storm bus

GERMAN police stormed a hijacked city bus yesterday to end a nearly seven-hour hostage drama without bloodshed, freeing the remaining six hostages held by a man armed with a pistol.

Police commandos stormed the bus and captured the hijacker, who had freed most of his hostages after stopping the bus on an autobahn highway south of Hanover, police spokesman Walter Wollott said.

A television reporter at the scene said he heard no shots fired. The hijacker was not injured in the storming, officials said.