Man Was Arrested For Holding A Knife And Kidnapping A Bank Employee For 5 Million.

Washington (reporter Lu Jianluan correspondent alarm) Guangzhou Panyu police reported that in the afternoon of June 17th, a case of hostage taking occurred in Panyu District South Village. After less than an hour's disposal, the hostages were rescued.

On the afternoon of 17, at 4:30 p.m., the Panyu police received a report that an emotional young man entered a bank in the intersection of Xingye Road and Guotai road in Panyu District. He hijacked a bank female employee and asked the bank for 5 million yuan in cash.

After receiving the alarm, the Panyu police immediately sent police officers to the scene.

Eyewitness: man's mood

Also (reporter Li Liang) reporters yesterday afternoon about six o'clock arrived at the scene, the man has been taken away by the police, the scene of the cordon has also been removed.

Incident bank pull gate has been pulled down.

Mr. Zhang basically witnessed the process of the incident. He said that he was passing the bank at the crossroads and heard the sound of the bank alarm system. He then came to the bank's ATM to look around the bank, and saw a young man holding a dagger in his right hand and a neck of his female employee in his left hand. "The man is standing, the woman is sitting, the head of the female employee is just at the man's chest."

At that time, only one security guard was in the bank, and about two minutes later another policeman entered the bank.

Mr. Zhang saw through the glass that the man was in a state of excitement. When the crowd was taking pictures, he waved with a knife to show people not to shoot.

Shortly afterwards, a large number of police arrived, and police officers continued to communicate with men.

Mr. Zhang said that later he saw a policeman entering the bank after he handed the gun to his colleagues. "It should be in negotiations."

After negotiations, it was estimated that the negotiation was successful and the man came out of the consultation desk. The man was soon taken away from the bank.

The whole process is about more than 40 minutes.

The bank staff at the scene did not disclose the details to reporters, but the shopkeeper of the hardware store beside the bank told reporters that the bank employees who were familiar with them said that the men entered the bank to hijack the female staff in less than two minutes, and the dagger was placed on the neck of the female staff during the hijacking.

The hijacked female worker is the manager of the bank lobby. She looks less than 30 years old.

Another citizen, Mr. Lin, took a picture of the man being taken out of his cell phone. He saw from the video that the man was wearing a red short sleeved shirt, jeans and long hair. He was about 20 years old. When he was escorted from the bank by the police, he was still looking around, but he quickly bowed his head and was taken away by the police car.