Tigers 'abduct' 24 schoolchildren
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The Sri Lankan military says Tamil Tiger rebels have kidnapped 24 schoolchildren in the east of the country.
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A Chinese bus driver slashed 25 primary school students with a knife and kidnapped a young girl in east China&#39;s Shandong province before being captured by police, reported the state media.
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More than 200 people died and 700 were wounded, many of them young children, as troops stormed a school here Friday in a harrowing operation to free 1,000 hostages from heavily-armed militants demanding independence for Chechnya.
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BEIJING - A knife-wielding man was arrested in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong on Monday after injuring 25 students and holding a 9-year-old girl hostage at an elementary school, China&#39;s official media reported.
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About 20 children taken hostage at a school in north-west Pakistan after police shootout
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Ten young children are taken into care and 25 people held in raids targeting suspected gangs and child trafficking.
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Fifteen children have been allowed to leave a school at the centre of a hostage crisis in Russia, according to media reports. Armed men and women have occupied the school in the Russian region of North Ossetia.
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MOSCOW - Armed attackers, some wearing suicide-bomb belts, seized a school Wednesday in a Russian region bordering Chechnya and were holding hundreds of children and adults hostage, news reports said. The assault came a day after a suicide bomber killed 10 people in Moscow...
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Islamist militants take children and teachers hostage in a school near the Pakistani district of North Waziristan, officials say.
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In China a man has stabbed 25 children and kidnapped a nine-year-old girl at a primary school. The Xinhua news agency reports police arrested thirty seven-year-old bus driver Jia Qingyou (Jah Ching-yo) after the attack at the No.
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Hijackers have released two more of the around 24 hostages they are holding after seizing a bus in an Athens suburb, bringing the total freed to 12.
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Gunmen seized control of a high school in northwestern Pakistan, holding more than two dozen students and teachers hostage for hours before surrendering to tribal negotiators.
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A gunman approached a group of children waiting at a school bus stop Friday morning and abducted one of them, officials said.
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Tamil Tiger rebels kidnapped 24 Tamil teenagers, mostly girls, who were attending a class preparing them for school exams, the Sri Lankan military said Tuesday.
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Details began to emerge yesterday as to what may have driven the school siege militants, as yet unidentified, to commit such a horrifying act against children.
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More than a dozen attackers bearing guns and reportedly wrapped in suicide-bomb belts seized an elementary school in the Russian region of North Ossetia Wednesday morning and were holding hundreds of hostages including some 200 children.
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MOSCOW -- Militants wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a school in southern Russia and took scores of children, parents, and teachers hostage early yesterday, threatening to blow up the building if government troops tried to storm it.