Chinese hostage freed but another killed in rescue
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ISLAMABAD - One of two Chinese engineers held hostage was rescued while the other died of gunshot wounds after Pakistani commandos raided a house near the Afghan border yesterday.
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ISLAMABAD (Pakistan) - A Pakistani military plane left for China on Saturday carrying the body of a Chinese engineer who was kidnapped by Al-Qaeda-linked militants and then killed during an attempt to rescue him and another hostage.
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One hostage and five militants died when Pakistan army commandos on Thursday tried to free two Chinese engineers held by followers of a former Guantanamo Bay inmate linked to al-Qaida.
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China's Foreign Ministry announced Sunday that nine Chinese oil workers who were kidnapped last month in Nigeria had been released unharmed by their captors.
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KABUL: A Turkish engineer taken hostage in Afghanistan was killed by kidnappers when they were cornered by police mounting a rescue operation, a senior official said on Wednesday.
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There are reports that British hostage Kenneth Bigley was killed after he attempted to flee his captors in Iraq.
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The efforts to secure the release of two Chinese engineers failed for second time on Wednesday as leaders of the militants, holding hostages in Pakistan tribal region, have
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Armagh woman Annetta Flanigan and her two fellow hostages, from Kosova and the Philippines, were freed on Tuesday in circumstances which have yet to become clear.
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A website, which this week published a second unsubstantiated claim that two Italian aid workers held hostage in Iraq had been executed, reported that British captive Kenneth Bigley had been killed.
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Insurgents released a video Tuesday showing eight Chinese workers held hostage by gunmen who claim the men are employed by a construction company working with U.S. troops, in the latest abduction of foreigners in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD -- An Iraqi extremist group linked to Al Qaeda said yesterday that it had killed a second American hostage, a day after a video recording showed the insurgents beheading another American captive. The group announced the slaying on an Islamist website in a statement laced with threats against the US presence in Iraq.
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[World News]: Kathmandu, Nov 3 : One more Nepalese has been taken hostage in Iraq along with five others, barely two months after an Islamist groups abducted and killed 12 Nepalese there.
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Four more South Korean hostages are freed in Afghanistan, leaving three remaining in Taleban hands.
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A Turkish engineer taken hostage in Afghanistan was killed by kidnappers after a police rescue operation ended in tragedy, interior ministry spokesman Lutfullah Mashal told AFP.
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Two kidnapped Italian aid workers were freed Tuesday after three weeks of captivity in Iraq, and six other hostages in the country were also released.
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Three UN workers who were held hostage in Afghanistan for more than three weeks are apparently unharmed after being released Tuesday.
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Afghanistanâs Foreign Ministry insisted that one of the hostages had died of a heart attack and the other was still alive.