Belfast hostage 'held in forest'
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A female hostage in a Â£20m bank raid raised the alarm after scrambling through a forest, the BBC  learns.
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The fate of a British hostage kidnapped in Baghdad is looking increasingly perilous after his captors threatened to kill him if their demands are not met.
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A Londonderry teenager says a masked gang tried to abduct him in the city's Gobnascale estate.
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Hooded gunmen held a family of five hostage while accomplices stole their car to machine-gun a local police station in Northern Ireland, police said.
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LONDON  - Bank robbers have fled with several million pounds after two bank employees were taken hostage in Northern Ireland&#39;s capital Belfast, security sources revealed.
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A gang held the families of two  Northern Ireland bank officials hostage for 24 hours before  stealing about 20 million pounds ($39 million) in one of  Britain's biggest robberies, police said on Tuesday.
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Militants who claim to be holding a Northern Ireland woman and two others hostage in Afghanistan have said they are suffering the effects of the cold and a poor diet.
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Kidnappers threatening to kill a Northern Irish woman in Afghanistan were today awaiting a response to their demand for a prisoner exchange.
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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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A 13-year-old boy bound to a tree in the woods foiled a kidnapping-for-ransom plan by using a safety pin, his teeth and his hands to escape, police said Sunday.
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Four armed inmates were holding a prison administrator, his secretary and two female guards hostage Wednesday in western Honduras, police said. They were demanding a getaway car.
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Police hunt a prisoner who escaped from his handcuffs and the custody of Reliance security guards in Fife.
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Two men and a woman are held hostage over night by a gang of up to 10 armed and masked men.
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Police investigating an alleged kidnap plot in north Belfast arrest two men and recover a large sum of money.
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Raiders have stolen millions of pounds from a bank in Belfast, after holding two families hostage for 24 hours. The precise amount of money taken from the Northern Bank is not yet known, but its vault potentially held Â£30m.
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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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Former Gurkha soldiers are providing security for Belfast clampers, it has been revealed.