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Shots fired during Lindhout release
Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 7 hours ago
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Kidnapped journalists Amanda Lindhout and Australian Nigel Brennan were released Wednesday after 15 months of captivity in Somalia. (Government of Somalia/Reuters) Shots were fired at the vehicle carrying kidnapped Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout...
Tags: Amanda Lindhout, journalists amanda, Somalia, Mogadishu, Foreign hostages in Somalia, Kidnapping, Hostage taking, Politics, Hostage
Three questioned over 'tiger kidnapping'
Belfast :: United Kingdom | about 19 hours ago
Credibility Three men were questioned today after an armed gang held a man hostage while his partner handed over a ransom demand. Another couple and two children were also detained at gunpoint as part of the so-called tiger kidnapping. Four armed and masked men...
Tags: United Kingdom, Belfast, Human rights abuses, Kidnapping, Hostage, Law Crime
Orlando hostage crisis: Suspect barricaded inside home
Orlando :: FL :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Orlando Police Department spokeswoman Barbara Jones said Wednesday that she did not know the ages of the children...She said the incident might have stemmed from a domestic dispute.
Tags: Orlando Police Department, Orlando, SWAT, Los Angeles Police Department, Law enforcement in the United States, Orlando Florida, S.W.A.T., Hostage Barricade Team, Hostage, War Conflict, Albany New York, LAPD Metropolitan Division, Albany County New York, Emergency Response Team, Disaster Accident, Law Crime, Hudson River
Making surrender an option
Evansville :: IN :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility With a nearby middle school on lockdown and an entire Southeast Side apartment complex potentially at risk, Evansville Police Department crisis negotiator Tim Alford was tasked earlier this year with talking a suicidal gunman into giving up peacefully....
Tags: Tim Alford, swat team, Chris Pugh, Evansville Police Department, Evansville, S.W.A.T., Hostage, Negotiation, Swat Pakistan, Law enforcement in the United States, Los Angeles Police Department, SWAT
Gunmen kidnap, rob clerk
Boston :: MA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility T hree thugs kidnapped the clerk of a Jamaica Plain convenience store and held him hostage at gunpoint while they robbed his check-cashing and lottery store before they dumped him on a street corner with a bag over his head and zip-tied wrists, cops say.
Tags: East Milton, Boston, Hostage, Law Crime
Japan hostage in Yemen seized by Al-Qaeda
Sanaa :: Yemen | 6 days ago
Credibility A Japanese engineer kidnapped by Yemeni tribesmen has been seized by Al-Qaeda gunmen, a tribal source who has been seeking to negotiate his release said on Saturday. "The hostage was seized by elements of Al-Qaeda, who took him to an unknown destination...
Tags: Yemeni, Al-Qaeda, Sanaa, Yemen, Islamism, Organized crime, Hostage, Hostage taking, Islamic terrorism
TJMaxx Hostage Situation
Venice, Florida off of Highway 41 Tuesday night, A TJMaxx was robbed and employees were believed to be held hostage. Amazingly they were not caught, and the whole report seems a little iffy. I mean, we're a small town, but how do you get away, and neither...
Tags: Venice, Hostage taking, Hostage, Law Crime, allnews
17 -Year -Old Held Hostage
Baltimore-9A.M.-A police officer was flagged down by a man.He told the officer his son was abducted.While the man was talking to the officer his cell phone rang.The man on the line told the boys father he wanted $50,000 and "two bricks"(which is a large...
Tags: kidnapping, extortion, assault, false imprisonment, young, boy, father, police, officer, drugs, Baltimore, flagged.abducted, bus, charged, Hostage, Held Hostage
At store under siege, a night both harrowing and chaotic
Venice :: Italy | 8 days ago
Credibility The next, she was dropping to the floor, fearing two masked gunmen who had raced into the store would take her hostage. "I didn't want them to see my face," she said. The intruders, apparently intending to rob the store, tied the teenage employee and...
Tags: Venice T.J. Maxx, Italy, Venice, T.J. Maxx, SWAT, Hostage, Law enforcement in the United States, S.W.A.T., films
Kidnapped Japanese release suspended
Baghdad :: Iraq | 9 days ago
Credibility State faces extortion for dangerous prisoners' release, Sana'a Mayor Arhab kidnappers suspended their Japanese hostage’s release over skepticism of the guarantee signed by a mediation committee, local sources said. The mediation committee’s member said...
Tags: Arhab, Hussein Abdullah Hussein Joab, Iraq, Baghdad, Hostage taking, Hostage
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