Toronto hostage-taker holds woman at gunpoint, shot dead by police: reports
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TORONTO (CP) - An armed hostage-taking at the height of morning rush-hour in front of Toronto's busy Union Station on Monday morning ended with a police sharpshooter killing a male suspect, broadcast reports said.
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A British-Iraqi woman kidnapped in Iraq  has probably been killed by her captors, her family and  diplomats said on Tuesday after a video tape surfaced  apparently showing a hooded gunman shooting her in the head.
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Police shoot and kill an armed man who had taken a woman hostage in a dramatic stand-off in the Canadian city of Toronto.
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Margaret Hassan, the aid worker kidnapped after years of helping Iraqis, is believed to have been slain by her captors, a British government official said yesterday, based on a video that showed a hooded militant shooting a blindfolded woman in the head.
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TORONTO (CP) - A Toronto woman stabbed her husband and three-year-old daughter to death before fatally cutting her own throat this week in one of the most terrible tragedies ever encountered by the city's emergency workers, police said Friday.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - One hostage was killed and two wounded on Wednesday when Nigerian troops launched a rescue attempt to free seven foreign oil workers abducted from an offshore oilfield, military and industry sources said.
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Police shot and critically wounded a carjacking suspect who ran into a crowded casino early Friday and took two patrons hostage.
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Three people were shot inside a federal detention center Wednesday morning and officers had the shooter in custody, police said.
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KARACHI, Pakistan - Paramilitary police killed a suspected top al-Qaida operative Sunday in a four-hour gunbattle at a house in southern Pakistan that also led to the arrest of two other men, the information minister said.    Amjad Hussain Farooqi had been wanted for his alleged role in the kidnapping and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 and two assassination attempts against President Gen...
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A suspected serial killer has been arrested in the deaths of five women in the city in just over a month &#151; and he is also connected to an assault on a woman whose dog ran the attacker off, police said.
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Paramilitary police killed a suspected top al Qaeda operative, wanted for alleged involvement in the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, during a four-hour shootout Sunday at a southern Pakistan house, the information minister said.
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TORONTO -- An armed hostage-taking at Toronto&#39;s busy Union Station ended just before 9 am with a man being shot dead by a police sharpshooter, leaving the hostage shaken but unharmed and the normally bustling area eerily quiet.
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Several people were shot and killed by a hostage taker who opened fire at an Amish school in Pennsylvania on Monday, police said, in the third fatal shooting at a U.S. school in a week.
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An aspiring actress and playwright was shot and killed as she confronted an armed robber during an early morning street holdup, police said.
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A vagrant wanted for questioning in a rape overpowered a police officer who was trying to handcuff him, then shot her to death with her own weapon Monday, police said.
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Toronto police shot and killed a man who was holding a woman hostage in the city&#39;s business core on Wednesday, ending a standoff that brought morning rush-hour traffic to a gridlocked standstill.
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Gunmen attacked a police station in the  western Iraqi town of Haditha on Sunday, took 21 policemen  hostage and later shot them dead, police said.