The World - News from Aug. 18, 1988

Two fleeing West German bank robbers, after killing a teen-age hostage, crossed into the Netherlands in a hijacked bus, and then escaped in a car provided by Dutch officials, police said. They had an unidentified hostage with them, police added. The bandits earlier fatally shot a 15-year-old boy, one of 25 hostages on the bus, near Bremen before speeding off. Dutch police had surrounded the bus in the town of Hengelo. The gunmen then released five hostages but demanded a getaway car in return for the rest, police said. The gunmen also fired shots aboard the bus, injuring two hostages, police added. Their conditions were not known. The pair had robbed a bank in Gladbeck, southeast of Bremen, on Tuesday, fleeing with two hostages and $227,000. They were pursued to Bremen, where they seized the bus and took more hostages.