Hostage Takers Give Up After 18-Hour Standoff on Bus in Greece
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A daylong hostage siege ended here early Thursday morning after two gunmen who had hijacked an Athens-bound commuter bus surrendered to the authorities and released their six remaining captives.
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A hostage on a hijacked Greek bus said  in a mobile phone call from the vehicle Wednesday that her  captors wanted to fly to Russia and were armed with guns and  explosives.
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ANDAHUAYLAS, Peru -- A four-day occupation of a police station and part of a Peruvian town by an armed group of ex-military nationalists demanding the president's resignation ended yesterday when they surrendered and freed their hostages.
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A bus carrying more than 20 passengers in the Greek capital of Athens was hijacked by unknown armed perpetrators earlier today. Security forces cordoned the bus and the driver, who was able to escape from
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A Greek bus hostage siege has ended peacefully as all 23 passengers were freed and as police revealed the two armed Albanian hijackers had been bluffing when they threatened to blow up the bus.
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A Greek bus hostage siege ended  peacefully on Thursday when all 23 passengers were freed and  police revealed the two armed Albanian hijackers had been  bluffing when they threatened to blow up the bus.
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ATHENS  - Experience acquired by Greek police during the summer&#39;s Olympic Games proved critical in the successful outcome of the bus hijack crisis which ended with the hostages being released unharmed and the gunmen arrested.
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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 foreign gunmen carrying explosives have hijacked a Greek bus with 26 passengers and demanded to go to Russia, a freed hostage says.
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ARMED police and negotiators were today surrounding a bus after it was hijacked in Athens. Two men with a shotgun - who also claimed to have explosives - had boarded the vehicle at a bus stop.
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ATHENS, Greece - Two Albanian immigrants were charged Thursday with multiple counts of kidnapping and attempted murder following an 18-hour bus hijacking and hostage drama that ended peacefully, and the government appealed for Greeks not to strike back at
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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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ATHENS: Gunmen holding six people hostage in a bus near Athens threatened to blow up the vehicle on Thursday morning unless their demands for a ransom and safe conduct out of the country were met.
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Fears mount of bloody end to standoff in which armed robbers hold 30 hostages
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BESLAN, Russia - A respected pediatrician negotiated through the night to end a standoff with militants who threatened to blow up a school they seized 24 hours before with about 350 hostages, including children, trapped inside.    Crowds of distraught relatives and townspeople waited helplessly for news of their loved ones as the crisis entered its second day Thursday with no sign of a resolution...
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Two armed Albanian hijackers surrendered and released their hostages early today, 18 hours after seizing a bus in an Athens suburb and threatening to blow it up if authorities did not pay a ransom.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Two armed hijackers have surrendered and released their hostages, 18 hours after seizing a bus near Athens, Greece.