Bus Hijackers Hold 11 in Athens, Demand $1 Million
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Two gunmen thought to be Albanians  hijacked a Greek bus with 23 passengers on board on Wednesday  in Athens and demanded a $1 million ransom and a plane to fly  them to Russia.
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Two armed hijackers released another two men from a bus in Athens in a fourth batch, bringing the total number of the released hostage to 12 , including 6 men and 6 women, police said Wednesday.
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ATHENS, Greece - A hostage standoff ended near Athens, Greece (search), seemingly without a shot fired, nearly 19 hours after two gunmen seized a bus carrying 26 people and threatened to blow it up.
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Two suspected Albanians armed with rifles and dynamite hijacked a packed passenger bus in Athens and warned they would "light the fuse" if a Thursday deadline for payment of a $1 million ransom was not met.
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Armed special forces police surround the bus at the end of a hijack siege in eastern Athens early Thursday, Dec. 16, 2004 in this image taken from television.
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ATHENS : Gunmen holding seven passengers hostage in a bus near Athens after releasing 16 in stages threatened to blow up the vehicle Thursday unless their demands for a ransom and safe conduct out of the country were met.
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Greek police surrounded a bus filled with passengers that had been seized by gunmen in the Athens suburb of Marathon early Wednesday, Greek police said.
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Gunmen who hijacked an Athens bus and held its passengers hostage are being questioned by Greek police after giving themselves up.
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A Greek bus hostage siege ended in the early hours of this morning when all 23 passengers were safely freed and two Albanian gunmen who had demanded a $1 million ransom surrendered, a police spokesman said.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Two armed hijackers have surrendered and released their hostages, 18 hours after seizing a bus near Athens, Greece.
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A hijacked bus is seen on a street some 30 kilometres north of Athens December 15, 2004. Greek police forces surrounded the bus after two armed men hijacked it early Wednesday morning with 26 passengers
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Two foreign gunmen, who hijacked a Greek  bus with 26 passengers on Wednesday, have demanded a $1 million  ransom and a plane out of the country.
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ATHENS, Greece Formal charges, and an appeal for calm. They're the latest developments in the arrests of two Albanian immigrants charged with staging an 18-hour bus hijacking and hostage siege in Athens.
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Hijackers who took as many as 26 people hostage on a commuter bus on the outskirts of Athens released five of the captives. Police are in negotiations to free the remaining hostages, a spokeswoman said.
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Greek police were last night continuing negotiations with two Albanian hijackers holding seven hostages aboard a bus on the outskirts of Athens.
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ATHENS, Greece - Two armed men hijacked a bus carrying more than two dozen passengers early Wednesday, threatening to blow it up with explosives unless they were taken to the airport and put on planes, police and government officials said.
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Greek police surrounded a bus filled  with passengers that had been seized by gunmen in the Athens  suburb of Marathon early Wednesday, Greek police said.