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 Greek bus hostage siege ended  peacefully on Thursday when all 23 passengers were freed and  police revealed that the two armed Albanian gunmen had been  bluffing when they threatened to blow up the bus.
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Hijackers who took as many as 26 people hostage on a commuter bus on the outskirts of Athens surrendered early today and all the captives have been freed, Greek police said.
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An armed group of ex-military nationalists released their hostages and surrendered on Tuesday, four days after seizing a police station and part of a Peruvian town to demand the president's resignation.
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Two Macedonians taken hostage by a militant group were reported to have been beheaded in Iraq yesterday. However, the first Australian kidnap victim in the country was freed after 36 hours in captivity.
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Two gunmen who hijacked a bus and threatened to blow it up surrendered just after midnight Wednesdayand released six of the remaining hostages.
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The two gunmen who had hijacked an Athens-bound commuter bus surrendered to the authorities and released their six remaining captives.
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The three-day hostage siege at a school in southern Russia ended in chaos and bloodshed Friday, after witnesses said Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building.
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Philippine police stormed a courtroom to end a 24-hour hostage standoff Wednesday, freeing all four captives who were held by a movie stuntman and his common-law wife. The gunman was killed when he dropped a grenade during the confrontation.
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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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The hostage crisis in Greece has ended without loss of life with the surrender of two Albanian gunmen who had been holding a group of passengers captive in a bus in the capital, Athens.
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ATHENS -- 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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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 handful of people were still being held hostage by two armed, masked men who hijacked a bus near the Greek capital and were threatening to blow it up.
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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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Two foreign gunmen carrying explosives  hijacked a Greek bus with 26 passengers on Wednesday and  demanded to go to Russia, a freed hostage said.
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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.