Peru soldiers take police hostage
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Peruvian army reservists storm a police station, take officers hostage, and demand President Toledo resign.
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Police in Peru arrest the leader of a band of army reservists who seized a police station and took hostages.
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Fighters belonging to an armed nationalist group that seized a remote Peruvian police station and took officers and soldiers hostage surrendered to authorities Tuesday and freed their 17 captives, officials said.
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LIMA, Peru  - An ex-soldier and 200 supporters  took over a police station in a poor Andean town on Saturday  and demanded the resignation of President Alejandro Toledo  after a gunfight that injured seven people.
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LIMA, Peru  - Four Peruvian police died on Sunday  after security forces battled to retake parts of a southern  town seized by an armed group early on New Year's Day to demand  the resignation of President Alejandro Toledo.
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LIMA, Peru  - Five police officers died on Sunday  in a shootout with supporters of an ex-soldier who took over a  police station in a southern Peru early on New Year's Day and  took 10 police hostage, RPP radio reported.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian authorities detained a  former army major who led a three-day uprising in a southern  Andean town and will storm the police station where some of his  200 supporters remain unless they surrender, Prime Minister  Carlos Ferrero said early on Tuesday.
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LIMA, Peru  - Four police officers died on Sunday  in a shootout with an armed group that took over a police  station in a southern Peruvian town on New Year's Day and held  10 hostages, doctors said.
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By Marco Aquino ANDAHUAYLAS, Peru  - An armed group of ex-militarynationalists released their hostages and surrendered onTuesday, four days after seizing a police station and part of aPeruvian town to demand the president's resignation.
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Urgent attempts under way to free four security guards and finance expert seized by gunmen in police uniforms.
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Gunmen led by a retired army major overran a police station in a remote Andean city Saturday, vowing to remain inside until Peru's unpopular president leaves office. At least seven police were wounded in the shootout.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian authorities on Monday  launched an offensive to retake a police station and end a  three-day siege by former soldiers in a southern Andean town.
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An armed gang who fled with hostages after freeing 30 people held at a bank in Venezuela are captured.
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At least 25 students were taken hostage in northwest Pakistan Monday by a group of five or six suspected criminals being pursued by police, police told CNN.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian authorities have detained a  former army major who led a three-day uprising in a southern  Peruvian town and are preparing to storm the police station he  took over with 200 supporters, a government source told Reuters  early on Tuesday.
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Venezuelan police swooped on an ambulance used by robbers escaping a bank siege on Tuesday, arresting all four men and freeing a group of captives to end a two-day hostage standoff.
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Peru declares a state of emergency in an Andean region where army reservists have seized a police station.