More Athens bus hostages freed
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Hijackers have released two more of the around 24 hostages they are holding after seizing a bus in an Athens suburb, bringing the total freed to 12.
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A Greek bus hostage siege ended in the early hours of this morning when all 23 passengers were safely freed and two Albanian gunmen who had demanded a $1 million ransom surrendered, a police spokesman said.
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ATHENS : Armed men hijacked a bus in an Athens suburb early Wednesday, taking some 20 passengers aboard hostage, a police source said.
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A Greek police force faced what The Associated Press called its &quot;first test&quot; since undergoing intensive training for this past summer&#39;s Olympics when two armed men seized a bus full of passengers Wednesday in the country&#39;s fifth such hijacking since 1999.
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Two foreign gunmen carrying explosives have hijacked a Greek bus with 26 passengers and demanded to go to Russia, a freed hostage says.
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Greek police surrounded a bus carrying  26 passengers that was seized by two armed hijackers along a  highway from an Athens suburb on Wednesday, police said.
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A group of 24 Filipino hostages kidnapped more than three weeks ago have been freed, a spokesman for Baco-Liner, their employer, said Tuesday.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Two armed hijackers have surrendered and released their hostages, 18 hours after seizing a bus near Athens, Greece.
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ATHENS (Greece): Greek police surrounded a bus filled with passengers that had been seized by gunmen in the Athens suburb of Marathon early on Wednesday, Greek police said.
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ATHENS -- Two armed Albanian hijackers surrendered and released their hostages early today, 18 hours after seizing a bus in an Athens suburb and threatening to blow it up if authorities did not pay a ransom.
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ATHENS, Greece - A Greek bus with 26 people aboard was hijacked Wednesday by two armed men who demanded to be taken to Athens airport and flown to Russia, police and government officials said.
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Two foreign gunmen hijacked a Greek bus carrying 26 passengers on Wednesday and demanded to go to Athens airport to leave the country.
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BAGHDAD -- Kidnappers in Iraq freed seven hostages yesterday, releasing two female Italian aid workers who were abducted from their home three weeks ago, two of the women's Iraqi colleagues and three Egyptian employees of a local cell phone company.
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A passenger left a hijacked Greek bus on Wednesday five hours after two gunmen seized the bus with 26 passengers aboard in Athens suburbs early on Wednesday, the Greek television station Mega reported.
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Athens - Two hijackers holding a Greek bus with about two dozen passengers aboard on Wednesday released five hostages, three women and two men.
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ATHENS: Two suspected Albanians armed with rifles and dynamite hijacked a packed Greek passenger bus in Athens and warned they would &quot;light the fuse&quot; if a this morning&#39;s deadline for payment of a $1.3 million (BD491,400) ransom and safe passage was not met
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Greek police were last night continuing negotiations with two Albanian hijackers holding seven hostages aboard a bus on the outskirts of Athens.