Hijacker May Have Killed Self
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COLOGNE, Germany — An Israeli who commandeered a sightseeing bus and shot the driver and a passenger to death apparently took his own life as police stormed the bus, a prosecutor said Monday.
Autopsy results showed gunpowder burns on Leon Bor’s head. Police didn’t shoot from up close, although a police sharpshooter’s bullet that hit Bor in the neck probably would have been fatal, prosecutor Karl Utermann said.
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