New Delhi (Sputnik): India’s state of Uttar Pradesh was tense on Thursday 30 January, after a man took 23 children hostage. The accused invited the children to his home, supposedly for a birthday party for his daughter. The state government launched a Commando operation, which ended with the man being shot dead and the children […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Cologne police on Monday closed parts of the western German city’s main train station after a man took a woman hostage in a pharmacy inside. Police officer Christoph Schulte told The Associated Press that incident appears to have started Monday at 12:45 p.m. He said parts of the station, one of the […]
A man under the influence of alcohol and methamphetamine took an Australian family and three Thai workers hostage at a restaurant on popular Railay Beach in Krabi on Tuesday evening. It took some 50 policemen about 45 minutes to end the hostage drama, which began at 7pm at the beach in Tambon Ao Nang in […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Civilians held hostage by Islamist militants occupying a southern Philippine city have been forced by their captors to loot homes, take up arms against government troops and serve as sex slaves for rebel fighters, the army said on Tuesday, June 27, Reuters reports. Citing accounts of seven residents of Marawi City who either […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Philippine security forces bombed a southern city on Thursday, May 25 as they battled Islamist militants who were holding hostages and reported to have murdered at least 11 civilians, according to AFP. An initial rampage by the gunmen, who have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, through the mainly Muslim city of […]
Islamic State-linked gunmen on the run from Philippine forces abducted a Catholic priest and three others Wednesday, officials said, as President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to expand martial law he imposed a day earlier in the country’s south. Sporadic clashes went on for a second day around the southern city of Marawi, with many of its […]
A siege in a Paris travel agency office has come to a close with the release of six hostages, but the suspect is reportedly still at large. Local media reports suggest that the incident was a botched robbery attempt. It started at approximately 6:30 p.m. Friday when the man, who was reportedly armed with a […]
A man held a woman hostage with a knife to her throat at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center on Thursday, creating panic among a crowd of people at a national book fair. The incident occurred at around 5.20pm on Thursday at the 21st Book Expo Thailand 2016, which started today and runs until Oct […]
