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WORLD NEWS Monday 23 october 2017

Gunman arrested after taking hostages at UK bowling alley

tions director, Chris Clegg, did not confirm those de-
said the two hostages were tails.
checked by medical per- All customers were able
sonnel and appeared to to leave the premises and
be fine. were unharmed, Amshar
Earlier, Warwickshire police said.
had warned the public to A witness from a nearby
stay away from the shop- restaurant, Carl Lenton,
ping center in Nuneaton, described what he saw
about 7.5 miles north of the outside as alarm spread
town of Coventry, but said through the shopping cen-
the problem was not terror- ter.
ism-related. “There were police cars ar-
Mehdi Amshar, chief exec- riving, there was a helicop-
utive of the MFA Bowl bowl- ter, police dogs, armed
ing alley chain, told Sky police stood all around the
News that he was informed bowling alley, around the
the two employees were outside of it,” Lenton said.
being held at gunpoint at The police response may
the company’s Nuneaton have been heightened by
Police at the scene of an incident at Bermuda Park in Nuneaton, central England, Sunday Oct. 22, branch. concerns about a possible
2017. A gunman who reportedly held two employees hostage at a central England bowling alley Amshar said he believed extremist attack. Britain’s
was arrested Sunday night after armed police moved in. the gunman was an ex- official terrorist threat level
(Aaron Chown/PA via AP) husband or former boy- is set as “severe,” indicat-
By SYLVIA HUI man’s condition were not injuries,” he said. friend of an employee, but ing an attack is thought to
GREGORY KATZ released. He has not yet The bowling alley’s opera- he couldn’t be sure. Police be highly likely.q
Associated Press been charged or identi-
LONDON (AP) — A gun- fied.
man who reportedly held Warwickshire Police Super-
two employees hostage at intendent Alex Franklin-
a central England bowling Smith said specialist fire-
alley was arrested Sunday arms squads and police
night after armed police negotiators rushed to Ber-
moved in. He was treated muda Park, the shopping
at the scene and taken to center where the bowling
a hospital for treatment. alley is located, when re-
The two workers held for ports of a possible hostage
roughly four hours were re- situation came in.
leased unharmed, police “We are pleased that we
and ambulance officials were able to bring this inci-
said. dent to a peaceful resolu-
Details about the gun- tion and that there were no

Malta: Newspapers, citizens take

up murdered reporter’s message

STEPHEN CALLEJA “There are crooks every-
Associated Press where you look now. The
VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — situation is desperate” in
Several thousand Maltese the European Union nation
citizens rallied Sunday to of some 400,000 people.
honor an investigative jour- Police removed a banner
nalist killed by a car bomb, describing Malta as a “Ma-
but the prime minister and fia state.” Hundreds of par-
opposition leader who ticipants later held a sit-in
were chief targets of Daph- outside police headquar-
ne Caruana Galizia’s re- ters, demanding the res-
porting stayed away from ignation of Malta’s police
the gathering. commissioner. Some hurled
Participants at the rally tomatoes, cakes and coins
in Malta’s capital, Vallet- against an enlarged pho-
ta, placed flowers at the tograph of the commission-
foot of a memorial to the er spread out on the street.
53-year-old reporter that The homicide of a journal-
sprang up opposite the ist who devoted her career
law court building after her to exposing wrong-doing in
Oct. 16 slaying. Malta and raised her three
Some wore T-shirts or car- sons there united many of
ried placards emblazoned the nation’s oft-squabbling
with words from Caruana politicians, at least for a
Galizia’s final blog post: day.q