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Police commandos captured the hijacker, who did not resist and had freed most of his hostages after stopping the bus on a highway south of Hanover following a 120 km cross-country chase from the northern German city of Bremen, said a police spokesman. An N24 television reporter at the scene said he heard no shots fired. Neither the hostages nor the hijacker were injured, officials said. The armed man hijacked a bus in Bremen today morning, taking 18 passengers, including children, hostage and leading police on a cross-country highway chase. The hijacker took a seat behind the driver, and with a gun trained on his back forced the bus onto the autobahn, with police cars and ambulances trailing at a distance. After about two hours, the hijacker stopped the bus south of Hanover and began negotiating with authorities. He asked for water, a replacement bus driver and he demanded to talk to Bremen's Mayor, the police said. AP
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