Ten-hour Brazil bus hijack ends

The man (covered in green cloth) is led away by police

A gunman has surrendered to police in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro after seizing passengers in a 10-hour bus hijacking.

A passenger alerted police on a mobile phone that the man had hijacked the bus in the rush hour.

He quickly let dozens of passengers go and a number of others were later allowed to escape through a window.

The man's wife was on the bus and reports said he had threatened to kill her for leaving him.

About eight hostages were left when police boarded the bus and the man surrendered.

The siege in Nova Iguacu, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, was carried live on television.

Relatives were brought to talk to the man, whom police described as "emotionally unbalanced".

Police commander Hudson de Aguiar said: "He's always very tense, always with the gun pointed at his ex-wife."

Hostages said the man had made no threats to anyone other than his ex-wife.