Florida Jail Is Stormed To Free Hostages
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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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An armed gang that stormed a school in southern Russia may be holding as many as 1,500 hostages, far above the official figure of 350, newspapers quoted freed hostages on Friday as saying.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Two guards who were held hostage by four inmates at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Regional Jail were rescued, one of them by other inmates, as police negotiated for more than four hours to end the standoff...
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Belgian authorities said 14 people were arrested Friday for allegedly seeking to free an al-Qaida sympathizer imprisoned for planning a terrorist attack on U.S. air base personnel.
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Suspected Muslim rebels stormed a jail in the southern Philippines early on Friday with grenades and rockets, blasted a hole in its wall and helped 46 prisoners escape, authorities said.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - Dozens of al Qaeda-led militants stormed an Iraqi jail in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday and freed up to 140 prisoners in one of the biggest prison breaks since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, police said.
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- Imprisoned gang members enraged by a tough new anti-crime law rioted and seized about 100 hostages at two Salvadoran prisons Thursday.
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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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At least eight people are said to have died after inmates seize control of a top-security jail in Argentina.
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More than 1,000 prisoners are to be freed later ahead of schedule as part of a move to ease prison overcrowding.
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Afghan troops stormed a notorious prison in a hail of gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades Friday, ending a 10-hour standoff that began when five inmates once suspected of belonging to al-Qaida tried to escape. Four inmates and four guards were killed in the day's violence.
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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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Two people have been taken hostage during a riot at a pre-trial detention centre in Moscow, reports say.
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LIMA, Peru  - An armed group led by a radical  former soldier stormed a police station in a southern town on  Saturday and took 10 officers hostage to demand the resignation  of Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo.
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Nearly 30,000 detainees crowd two American-run detention facilities, and one US officer wants to set many free.
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US police arrest a Florida couple who went on the run after they were accused of torturing five children.
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Police free a man at a hotel in Milton Keynes after he was taken hostage in the Limehouse area of London.