Greek Bus Siege Ends, Police Say Hijackers Bluffed
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A Greek bus hostage siege ended  peacefully on Thursday when all 23 passengers were freed and  police revealed the two armed Albanian hijackers had been  bluffing when they threatened to blow up the bus.
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ATHENS, Dec 15  - Gunmen who commandeered a bus near Athens and demanded a ransom and safe conduct out of the country released four men and one woman Wednesday, police said, bringing to 17 the total number of passengers set free.
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Greek police surrounded a bus full of  passengers seized by armed hijackers along a highway from an  Athens suburb Wednesday, police said.
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Two armed hijackers seized a bus carrying 26 passengers on a highway from an Athens suburb on Wednesday, the Reuters news agency reports.
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Two armed men hijacked a bus in an Athens suburb Wednesday and are holding more than 20 people on board hostage. The hijackers are demanding a million euros in ransom and safe passage.
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ATHENS, Greece - Two armed men hijacked a bus carrying more than two dozen passengers early Wednesday, threatening to blow it up with explosives unless they were taken to the airport and put on planes, police and government officials said.
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ATHENS : Gunmen holding seven passengers hostage in a bus near Athens after releasing 16 in stages threatened to blow up the vehicle Thursday unless their demands for a ransom and safe conduct out of the country were met.
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Two Albanian gunmen who hijacked a packed Greek bus and threatened to blow it up turned out to be bluffing because they did not have any explosives, Greek police chief George Angelakos said on Thursday.
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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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A police anti-terror operation in The Hague has ended with the arrest of two suspects after a violent 14-hour siege, Dutch officials say.
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ATHENS, Greece - A hostage standoff ended near Athens, Greece (search), seemingly without a shot fired, nearly 19 hours after two gunmen seized a bus carrying 26 people and threatened to blow it up.
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A daylong hostage siege ended here early Thursday morning after two gunmen who had hijacked an Athens-bound commuter bus surrendered to the authorities and released their six remaining captives.
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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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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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A roadside bomb blast targeting a police  convoy in Athens early on Friday caused no injuries but alarmed  authorities who had been insisting that Greece's leftist  guerrillas were defeated.
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Anti-terrorist training received by Greek police ahead of this year&#39;s Olympic Games helped resolve the Athens bus hijacking, the government has said.
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Two armed men who hijacked a public bus and threatened to blow it up surrendered just after midnight Wednesday and released their six remaining hostages, ending an 18-hour standoff.