Policemen carry a freed hostage to an ambulance in Nanjing, east
China's Jiangsu Province on July 25. The suspect Lu Siwen, 42, held
a woman hostage after robbing her 300 yuan in a car, demanded
100,000 yuan and threatened to kill her. The woman was lightly hurt
in fingers and right arm, local police said.
Policemen persuade a suspect to free a female hostage in the car.
A policeman holds a knife after freeing the hostage.
(China Foto Press July 26, 2007)