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Sweden: Guards freed after hostage-taking by prison inmates
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Stockholm [Sweden], July 22 (ANI): Two prison guards who were taken hostage on Wednesday (local time) at a penitentiary outside the Swedish city of Eskilstuna by two convicted men of serious crimes have been freed, local media reported.
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Two held in connection with robbery in Delhi's Uttam Nagar
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 11 (ANI): The Delhi Police on Sunday arrested two persons in connection with an alleged robbery that took place earlier this week in Dwarka's Uttam Nagar.
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Attacker takes hostages at bank in Russia's Tyumen
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], July 7 (ANI/Sputnik): An unknown person took three hostages at a Sberbank branch in the Russian city of Tyumen on Wednesday, the emergency services told Sputnik.
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Pakistan assures assistance to US in recovering hostages from Afghanistan,
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 22 (ANI): Pakistan had assured the United States that it would continue to assist America and other countries in recovering their hostages from Afghanistan, but only as 'a moral duty' and not under coercion or incentives.
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Telangana: Businessman, 3 others held for holding police home guard hostag
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Sangareddy (Telangana) [India], June 11 (ANI): A businessman and his three accomplices were arrested on Thursday allegedly for manhandling a police home guard and holding him hostage in Patancheru of Telangana's Sangareddy district, informed the police.
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Afghan forces suffer 14 deaths, 37 taken hostage after clashes with Taliba
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 6 (ANI/Sputnik): The Afghan army has lost 14 troops, and 37 other soldiers were captured during the hostilities with the Taliban militants in northern Afghanistan, the TOLOnews media outlet reported on Sunday, citing a local source.
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Pakistan: Punjab police 'upset' with Imran govt-TLP accord
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], April 22 (ANI): The Punjab police senior command seemed upset on Thursday at what it calls 'premature and unnecessary accord' between the Imran Khan government and the banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), after many of its policemen were held hostages, including one of
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11 policemen held hostage by banned TLP released: Pak Interior Minister Ra
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 19 (ANI): Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid in the early hours of Monday announced that after the first round of talks with the recently proscribed Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), 11 policemen who were taken hostage in Lahore have been released.
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Pakistan: TLP supporters 'brutally torture' DSP, kidnap 5 policemen
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], April 18 (ANI): The supporters of Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), a proscribed far-right organisation, "brutally tortured" a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) in Punjab province of Pakistan and took him along with four other officials hostage on Sunday.
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Makers of 'Major' reveal first glimpse of Sobhita Dhulipala as NRI hostage
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 9 (ANI): The makers of the upcoming biographical drama 'Major' on Friday unveiled a poster from the film, that sees the first glimpse of Sobhita Dhulipala who essays the role of a hostage trapped in the tragic 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
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'Pakistan maintains stronghold over Taliban leadership by keeping their fa
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 21 (ANI): Pakistan has maintained its stronghold over the Taliban leadership by keeping their families hostage inside the country, according to a report in Modern Diplomacy.
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Three Indonesian hostages rescued in Southern Philippines
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia] March 21 (ANI): Three Indonesian fishermen kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf militants more than a year ago have been rescued in the southern Philipines, the police said.
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