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Gunman holds staff hostage after storming hospital in Istanbul
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], Feb. 1(ANI): An armed man on Wednesday held staff hostage at a hospital in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Not disrupting Parliament, just demanding debate for people who are suffer
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 9 (ANI): Rejecting the Centre's charges of holding the Parliament hostage, the Congress on Friday reiterated their demand of a debate on the issue of demonetisation and asserted that it was not disrupting the House proceeding, but simply wanted a healthy debate to
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Last rites of Major Mannadir performed with military honours in Maharashtr
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Pandharpur (Maharashtra) [India], Dec. 1 (ANI): The last rites of Major Gosavi Kunal Mannadir, who laid down his life while preventing a major hostage crisis during the Nagrota terror attack, was performed in Maharashtra's Pandharpur district today with full military honours.
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Govt. leaving no stone unturned to try to free ISIS-held Indian hostages:
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct. 6 (ANI): External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today met the families of 39 Indian nationals held captive in Iraq, and assured them that they are alive. She said the government is leaving no stone unturned to reach out to the stranded people there.
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Poonch encounter: Security forces rescue elderly couple held as hostage by
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Srinagar [India], Sept. 11 (ANI): Terrorists in Poonch town in Alla Pir Mohalla had taken an elderly couple as hostage amid the encounter that ensued with the Indian Army and Jammu and Kashmir Police.
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TTP claims custody of crashed Pak chopper's hostages
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad, Aug. 11 (ANI): Banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Hakimullah Mehsud Group has claimed that they have in their custody all the hostages of the Pakistani Punjab
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No relative of Pak Army Chief taken hostage in Afghanistan: ISPR
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad, Aug. 7 (ANI): The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) has dismissed media reports claiming that Army Chief General Raheel Sharif's son-in-law is among the seven crew members taken hostage by Taliban militants after a Punjab Government's Mi-17 crash-landed in Afghanist
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Pak helicopter crash-lands in Afghanistan, crew taken hostage by Taliban
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad, Aug.5 (ANI): A helicopter of Pakistan's Punjab province government crash-landed in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, following which the Taliban insurgents took the crew hostage before setting the helicopter on fire.
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Pak Govt's helicopter crash lands in Afghanistan; Taliban takes crew
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad/Kabul, Aug. 4 (ANI): A Pakistan's Punjab Government Mi-17 helicopter crash landed on Thursday in Afghanistan's Logar province, where Taliban militants took the crew hostage before setting the helicopter on fire.
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French President says church hostage episode a vile terrorist attack
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Paris, July 26 (ANI): French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday described the hostage crisis in the northern part of his country as a "vile terrorist attack" on a religious institution.
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Priest killed, hostage takers neutralised in France church attack
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
London, July 26 (ANI): French police on Tuesday said that a priest has been killed in the Normandy region of northern France after two men armed with knives took hostages in a church before being shot dead.
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France knife attack: Two men shot dead after taking hostages in Normandy c
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Paris, July 26 (ANI): Two men were shot dead after taking several people as hostages in France's northern Normandy church on Tuesday.
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