Foreign Gunmen Seize Greek Bus
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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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Gunmen seized several hostages from an Italian oil supply vessel off the coast of southern Nigeria, security officials said Wednesday.
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Gunmen attacked a minibus traveling through Iraq's notorious "Triangle of Death" region south of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing eight people and kidnapping three, police in the area said.
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Two Albanian gunmen who held 23 passengers hostage in a Greek inter-city bus last week were remanded in custody by a magistrate here pending trial on Monday.
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Gunmen abducted a Lebanese-American contractor who worked with the US Army from his Baghdad home, Iraqi officials said Wednesday, while four Jordanian truck drivers were seized by assailants in a separate kidnapping.
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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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Gunmen seize a secondary school in the southern Russian region of North Ossetia, taking several pupils hostage.
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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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Three British nationals have been seized by gunmen in Baghdad, the Iraqi interior ministry says.
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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 foreign gunmen carrying explosives  hijacked a Greek bus with 26 passengers on Wednesday and  demanded to go to Russia, a freed hostage said.
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Two gunmen who hijacked a Greek bus  carrying 26 passengers on Wednesday want to go to Athens  airport to leave the country, the head of the bus company said.
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Police take cover as they surround a bus in eastern Athens early Wednesday Dec. 15, 2004. A Greek public bus with about 27 people aboard was hijacked and shots were fired at police.
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A man holding hostages on a bus in Athens threatens to blow it up if a ransom is not paid in the morning.
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A Greek bus hostage siege ended today when all 23 passengers were safely freed and two Albanian gunmen who had demanded a $1 million ransom surrendered, a police spokeswoman said.
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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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Television viewers around the world watched a drama unfold in Athens on Wednesday morning, when two unknown hijackers took hostage 26 Greek bus passengers and threatened to detonate the bus.