European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 o the stars and stripes sunday August 10.1986 besieged robber blows up self hostage Helsinki Finland a a Man armed with a Shotgun and explosives who seized three hostages during a Bank robbery blew up his getaway car As police surrounded it Early saturday killing himself and a captive police reported. They Laid two women hostages were released shortly before the explosion and he robber and tin. Third hostage a 25-year-old Man. Were killed. Police initially said i rec people were killed in the blast including one of the women but corrected that report. Helsinki police commissioner Vaino Rantio said the Man set off the explosives As police surrounded his ear in the town of Mikkali at 4 . News briefs. He said Ihrck policemen who were near the car when it exploded were injured. Their condition was not known. Police described the robber As 30 to 35 Yean old 6 feet tall finnish speaking and very cold blooded and Methodi cal.1 the dead hostage was identified As Jukka Tauno Anlero Hakkinen a Cus Tomer in he Bank at the time of the Rob Bery. The finnish news Media said the gun Man initially seized 13 hostages in a sub Urban Helsinki Bank Friday but quickly released two elderly people. After tense negotiations he freed eight hostages unharmed when police agreed to provide him wit i a car and a suitcase full of Money. He Hen forced Hakkinen la drive the getaway car and ordered two women employees of the Bank into the backseat with him As hostages for his escape. Officials had agreed to inc Man s demand for Safe passage Oul of the country if he freed All of the hostages. Police vehicles trailed the getaway car As it drove out of Helsinki and the finn ish news Agency said the Auto finally was slopped in front of he county Hall in Mikkii which is located 125 Miles Northeast of the capital and about 75 Miles from Zhc soviet Border. The news Agency said armed police took up positions within 60 feet of he car and attempted to negotiate speaking with the two women hostages because inc gunman refused to respond directly. Manlio said the officers had insisted that the hostages be released and the gunman demanded a different car. Police had said the Man was armed with a sawed off Shotgun and explosives used in Rock blasting they did not give an estimate of the amount of explosives but said hey had known from the beginning of he 14-hour hos Tage drama the amount of explosives and thai he had connected the chaise police had indicated they thought the armed Man seized the hostages when his attempt to Rob the Bank was thwarted but they said later they believed the hos Tage taking was part of his old. Quake goes unnoticed san Diego a a Small earthquake rattled the san Diego area Friday night but went largely unnoticed by residents authorities said. We Haven been getting any Calls on it at All said police sol. Chuck Sleeper. He said some local radio stations reported getting a few Call from people asking if he shake they Felt had been an earthquake. The quake which struck shortly after 6 p.m., measured 3.6 on tic Richter scale and was entered in the Pacific 10 mites South West of san Diego according to seismologists at the California Institute of technology in Pasadena. Cal tech spokesman Dennis Meredith said the quake was unrelated to one that jolted san Diego county on july 13, injuring one person and causing More than $500,000 in property damage. Campbell uninjured Phoenix Ariz. A a twin engine plane carrying entertainer Glen Campbell made a belly Landing Friday after the Pilot forgot to lower the Landing gear officials said. Basically everybody was sort of Shook up said kick Martinez spokesman at sky Harbor International Airport. Nobody was he said friction Between the plane and the runway caused a Small fire on the plane. Fire fighters sprayed foam around the Craft. Campbell and five other passengers were re Luming from Preston about 60 Miles North of Phoenix Martinez said. Campbell lives in Phoe Nix. Student killed by bees Miami up1 a University of Miami graduate student was stung to death by a horde of killer bees that swarmed Over him in a Remote Cave in Costa Rica officials said. Inn Siang Ooi 24, a native of Malaysia who was working on Bis doctorate in biology Wai stung an average of 46 times per Square Inch Over his entire body in the hours Long attack said or. Jay Savage chairman of the univer sity s biology department. He said the incident occurred july 31, but the news did t reach Miami until thursday because the area where the attack look place is so Remote. Savage and or. Charles Schnell coordinator for the organization of tropical studies in san Jose Costa Rica said fellow researchers tried to help Ooi but were driven Back by inc bees. African killer bees were first brought to Brazil for study in 1957, and some of he Queen bees escaped mixing with the common Honey Bee Savage said. The offspring of this Union carries some of the aggressive nature of the african Bee. They fiercely protect the Queen and attack in a. Horde or a swarm he said. American arrested in Iran Al Ned embassy assist conce Washington a pass Merican telecommunications Engineer working fortpj0kc_prnpany in Iran has been arrested on charge he spa Safe the unite states it was disclosed Friday the slate department confirmed the arrest of Lis 49. Patlis sister Ellen said in a Friday t interview from Aiken s.c., that he was Airai july 18, apparently on suspicion he had Mided secret information to Iraq on behalf of theum slate department spokesman rules Redman said Friday that Iran has inc ugly created requests by Swiss diplomats for co apr Access to Jon Pattis a employee of a who was taken into Cus Tody about three wry in the absent Fen diplomatic relations Between the United stat Prid Iran the Swiss embassy . Inner Erin Tehran. Pattill Nister said Iran apparently suspects he had Jaffa secret information to Iraq on behalf of the de states she Dekinjr Franl her brother was a spy adding a firm which employs Pattis Cosmos engineers Che sea my declined to comment on the Case. Patlis had been working on a communications sat flite project in Assad bad about 200 Miles Southwest his sister said iranian suspicions about him Uge Mcd from his departure from the site where he pm Garking shortly before an iraqi air Raisin the area. " following the Rait Bemid he resumed to the Assa Dabady and helped re there. He has spent most of his Aduino jerking in Iran. The United states has not taken pc gun the Iran Iraq War. Pattis s sister said he at the request of run telecommunications Agency was carrying i italian passport. She said the Agency was concerns that iranian immigration authorities would not giant a visa to an american. Awning soccer fans Foro Fern to return to London up ne3o50 rival English soccer fans battled each other with shy my broken bodies aboard a North sea ferry Early frn Pluf a Drunken bloody Brawl that left four people serious a 21-year-old Man from Manchester with head injuries was reported in poor but condition after the ferry bound for Holland. Forced to turn Back to England police others were treated for Stab wounds j dozens of police waiting at the Enjo port of har wich made 14 arrests and put in Flimns on a train for London with police escort. English soccer teams a incr suspension from Competition in Europe a Flo a 1985 riot in Brussels in which 39 fans Mosij italian were killed in a Melee started by eng Lii British in Brit minister Richard Tracey said the Brawl on Jefferry is Likely to add years to the ban on Engli teams. The people who were involved in this Are absolute idiots. The Verf probably set Back for years the time when Elf clubs can resume full scale Competition in teams Tracy said. H ferry Konigin Hester United an West Mam teams began trading insults in one of the a crowded bars. Were going to Holland to watch their teams in it Miteon Friendly matches which do not fall under Hec Aegean ban on English teams. Sporadic fight Ninke out and soon escalated with some of the fans and breaking bottles for use As weapons. Thenn Chain and swung lire extinguishers at each other
