Man holds woman hostage, claims life threatened
Print At 12:15 p.m today, a young man ran into Phuong Nam Bookstore located inside the MaxiMark supermarket in Tan Binh District in Ho Chi Minh City, where he used a scissor and kept hostage a female employee at the bookstore.
All customers and employees at the bookstore ran away in panic.
Upon being informed by the bookstore’s security, local police and emergency police 113 rushed to the scene and persuaded the young man to surrender and release his hostage Ngau Ngoc Lan.
He turned down the police’s order and told them to provide him a taxi so that he and his hostage could leave the bookstore.
In a taxi driver uniform, a policeman drove a Vinasun taxi to the scene and when the man and his hostage got in the car, the policeman used an electrical baton to strike him and seized him at once.
The man was later taken to the Tan Binh District Police office, where he declared he is Voong Hoang Minh, 27, from southern Dong Nai Province.
He told the police that an underground gang was chasing and trying to kill him.
Therefore, he intentionally caused such a disturbance so that the police could be called to the scene and thereby protected him from the gang.
The rescued woman, 29, said after Minh threatened her with the scissor, he said, “Keep calm! I keep you as a hostage only because I want to return to Dong Nai in safety.”
