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Police shoot dead man holding 3 persons hostage in autonomous Chinese regi
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Beijing [China], Jan 13 (Sputnik/ANI): Police officers in the autonomous Chinese region of Inner Mongolia in the north of the country have shot dead an armed man who was holding three people hostage, the Xinhua news agency reported, citing local police.
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Man shot dead by New Zealand police after 15-hour hostage incident
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Wellington [New Zealand], Nov 24 (Xinhua/ANI): The New Zealand Police shot dead a man who held children hostage for 15 hours at a property in Bellevue, North Island, on Sunday.
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Trump thanks Qatar for ensuring release of foreign hostages
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Doha [Qatar], Nov 23 (ANI): US President Donald Trump has thanked Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani for the country's contribution in ensuring the release of two foreign professors kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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Haryana: Inspection team to check stubble burning held hostage by villager
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Fatehabad (Haryana) [India], Nov 1 (ANI): District administration officials, who went to monitor stubble burning situation at a village here on Friday, were held hostage by the villagers who allegedly misbehaved with them and the team had to be rescued by police.
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UP: Two held for kidnapping, beating student
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Oct 14 (ANI): Two men were arrested on Sunday in connection with the kidnapping of a 21-year-old student of Lucknow during Durga Puja celebrations in Uttar Pradesh, police said.
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Trump uncertain over Turkish offensive feat in North Syria, boasts US role
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 10 : Expressing uncertainty over Turkey's recently launched military operation against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria, President Donald Trump on late Wednesday (local time) said that in case the former 'lose control', the United States has already taken custod
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US takes custody of 2 British ISIS detainees from Kurdish
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], Oct 10 (ANI): The US military has taken the custody of two high profile British detainees known as "Beatles" notorious for their roles in an Islamic State cell who tortured and killed Western hostages.
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Taliban releases 3 Indian engineers
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Oct 7 (ANI): The Taliban said they have released three Indian engineers in an exchange of 11 of its members, including some high-ranking officials of the militant group.
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43 residents of Ghazni, taken hostage by Taliban, released
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Oct 6 : Forty-three residents of Khwaja Omri district in the southern Afghan province of Ghazni, who were abducted by the Taliban two days ago, have been released following mediation by tribal elders, the provincial governor's office said on Sunday.
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Delhi Police arrests accused in kidnapping and extortion case
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 3 (ANI): Delhi police have arrested a man accused of taking Delhi based loan commission agent as a hostage and extorting money for his release, Delhi Police officials said on Thursday.
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Yemen's Houthi rebels offer to release 350 hostages
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Sanaa [Yemen], Sept 30 (ANI): Yemen's Houthi rebels on Monday offered to release as many as 350 hostages whom they claimed to have captured during attacks over the past three days in the southern Saudi region of Najran.
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J-K DGP Dilbag Singh visits Ramban encounter site
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Ramban (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Sept 29 (ANI): J&K Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh on Saturday visited the encounter site in Ramban's Batote where the security forces in a joint operation killed three terrorists in five-hour long encounter and rescued a man who was held hos
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