Hostages Escape During Fighting Between Captors and Soldiers
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More than 700 hostages were rushed to hospitals, but many bodies lay in the charred wreckage of the school's gymnasium.
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Gunmen took hostage up to 250  Pakistani schoolchildren in the northwestern town of Bannu on  Monday after taking refuge in the school following a clash with  police, officials said.
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THE deadline set by insurgents who have threatened to execute a kidnapped Briton and two Americans ran out last night. The three were among dozens of hostages being held by militant groups.
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Armed Venezuelan bank robbers fled in an ambulance with a handful of hostages from a police siege in a deal that freed dozens of other captives on Tuesday after a two-day standoff.
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A prisoner broke loose and fled Wednesday after he was taken to the hospital, and there were reports that shots were fired in the building but no reports of injuries
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By Damien McElroy, Sean Rayment and Aqeel Hussein in Fallujah. The British hostage Kenneth Bigley made a desperate bid for freedom through a farming district on the outskirts of Latifiya on Thursday.
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Two gunmen involved in a hold-up of a St.George Bank Ltd. branch in the Sydney suburb of Neutral Bay earlier this morning have escaped, police said.
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BAGHDAD -- Militants sawed off the heads of three hostages believed to be Iraqi Kurds in a grisly videotape that surfaced yesterday, hours after Iraq's prime minister said that January elections would be held on schedule and asserted that US and Iraqi troops were winning the fight against an increasingly bold insurgency.
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At least six people - four prison guards and two prisoners - when Al Qaeda prisoners attempted a break out of Kabul&#39;s main Pul-i-Charki prison today, Afghan police officials and eyewitnesses said.
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Afghan troops stormed a notorious prison today in an assault aimed at ending a standoff sparked by a bloody escape attempt by four inmates once suspected of belonging to the al-Qaida terrorism organization.
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Police shot to death an armed man holding five hostages in a small-town post office west of Paris after a robbery attempt, and the captives were freed unharmed after a three-hour ordeal, the interior minister said.
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Bank robbers have escaped with several million pounds after employees were taken hostage at their homes, security sources have said.
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Russian soldiers fled as shooting broke out in the violence that ended the school siege and unprepared special forces were forced to borrow bullets from armed locals ,it was claimed today.
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British hostage Ken Bigley escaped  briefly from his captors shortly before they beheaded him in  Iraq, insurgent sources said Saturday.
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Escapees describe fleeing a Russian schoolyard Wednesday morning as guerrillas armed with rifles and explosives took hundreds hostage.
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Gunmen have invaded an oilfield control  station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's Bayelsa  state and are holding several soldiers and oil workers hostage,  security and industry sources said on Friday.
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U.S. forces battled insurgents loyal to Moktada al-Sadr and Baghdad's governor narrowly escaped an assassination attempt.