Prison hostage crisis unfolding
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GANG members at two Salvadoran prisons staged rebellions within minutes of each other today and are holding about 100 visitors and prison support staff hostage.
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Â· Â£500,000 student support payments to prisoners suspended Â· Opposition calls situation a fiasco
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IRELAND last night made Kenneth Bigley an Irish citizen in a desperate attempt to secure his release from his terrorist captors and end the hostage&#39;s 19-day ordeal.
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Staff are to receive counselling to help them cope with the ordeal, which involved the families of two employees being held hostage for over 24 hours.
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ARGENTINA BUENOS AIRES -- Rioting swept through a penitentiary housing 2,000 prisoners in central Argentina late yesterday, leaving at least three inmates dead and two dozen guards hostage, authorities said. Television footage showed rampaging inmates on the prison's roof wielding homemade knives while holding hostages, including one man in a bloodied shirt. Shots rang out as the rioters cast rocks ...
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Inmates in a Moscow pre-trial detention   center on Monday seized as many as 15 hostages, including a   chief warden and his deputy, and Interfax news agency reported   a blast and automatic gunfire at the prison.
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The French Government has held crisis talks on the fate of two French journalists held hostage in Iraq amid growing uncertainty over whether their kidnappers have demanded a ransom.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Rioting inmates at anArgentine prison began to release hostages on Friday nearly 20hours after they seized the facility, killing at least eightpeople and taking dozens hostage.
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A SWAT team stormed the Bay County Jail on Monday to end an 11-hour hostage standoff, injuring one hostage and three inmates, authorities said. An undetermined number of other employees were freed.
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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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One rescued hostage details what happened during the 53-hour ordeal.
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FRESH fears were raised over the fate of Ken Bigley yesterday after two hostages in Iraq were shown blindfolded and kneeling in front of a ditch before being shot.
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Rival Ulster Defence Association prisoners are separated after a disturbance in a County Antrim jail.
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NEGOTIATIONS for the release of Iraq hostage Kenneth Bigley are to begin between his captors and militants acting as intermediaries, it was claimed last night.
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Gang members at two prisons in El Salvador took some 100 visitors and prison staff hostage on Thursday, demanding direct negotiation with a top federal human rights ombudsman and an Archbishop, according to reports reaching in Mexico City from San Salvador
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Shooting and an explosion broke out overnight as troops moved into a prison in the Azerbaijani capital where more than 200 inmates had broken onto the roof to demand the ouster of the prison chief and seek better conditions, eyewitnesses and local media reported Wednesday.
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A man held hostage in Georgia tries to establish if reports that a man has been jailed for his kidnap are true.