Gunman Frees Japan Tourists, Surrenders

A car repairman who police said killed his mother-in-law and a friend commandeered a bus carrying 33 Japanese tourists, leading them on a nearly 10-hour odyssey at gunpoint before releasing them unharmed and surrendering to a TV talk show host. Authorities said Christos Kendiras, 48, used a shotgun shortly after daybreak to kill 77-year-old Georgia Spyrou and Stamatis Taktikos, 44, whom he suspected of being his wife’s lover, in the village of Galata, about 125 miles southwest of Athens, the capital. The auto body shop worker then drove to Epidauros and seized the bus. Kendiras eventually released the hostages and surrendered to popular talk show host Makis Triantafilopoulos.