Gunman takes hostages at Colorado school
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A gunman, possibly a parent, who said he   had explosives opened fire at a Colorado high school on   Wednesday, holding two girls hostage and prompting the   evacuation of hundreds of students, police said.
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The gunman who took students hostage at   a Colorado high school and killed a girl was a 54-year-old man   who lived out of his car and sexually assaulted at least one   hostage, police said on Thursday.
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A 16-year-old student died after a gunman walked into a Bailey, Colorado, high school and took hostages in a classroom. The shooter fatally shot the female student and turned the gun on himself as a SWAT team stormed inside, authorities said.
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The gunman who killed a student and committed suicide during a high school standoff methodically selected six girls as hostages &#151; apparently favoring blondes &#151; and sexually assaulted at least some of them, authorities and witnesses said Thursday.
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Armed men and women seize a secondary school in southern Russia, taking up to 200 pupils hostage.
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BESLAN, Russia - Heavily armed militants who seized a school three days ago are holding at least 1,000 students, teachers and parents hostage inside the building, far more than previously thought, a released hostage and a regional official said.    Russian officials had said that about 350 people were being held by raiders who seized the school in the North Ossetian city of Beslan on Wednesday...
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BESLAN, Russia - Attackers wrapped in suicide-bomb belts raided a school in a region bordering Chechnya, seizing up to 400 hostages - including scores of students welcoming the new school year - and threatening to kill captives or blow up the building if it was stormed by encircling Russian troops.    Authorities established contact with the hostage-takers hours after the raid Wednesday, which officials said left at least two people dead in the latest assault in a country the defense minister said has been challenged by a declaration of terrorist war...
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An armed man took a female hostage  at the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles on Tuesday, but he was  shot by police and the woman escaped unharmed, according to  television video.
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Islamist militants take children and teachers hostage in a school near the Pakistani district of North Waziristan, officials say.
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A gunman approached a group of children waiting at a school bus stop Friday morning and abducted one of them, officials said.
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MOSCOW, Russia -- Russia was in shock Wednesday as an armed group took more than 200 people hostage at a school near Chechnya just hours after a suicide bomber killed 11 people and injured dozens outside a busy Moscow subway station.
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Armed men seized a school in the Russian region of North Ossetia Wednesday morning and were in a gun battle with police, news reports said. The region borders with warring Chechnya.
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A gunman who was holding two girls   hostage at a Colorado high school was captured by police who   stormed the building where he was barricaded in a classroom, a   local television station reported on Wednesday.
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Video image of hostages sitting below explosives strung from basketball hoops in the gymnasium of a school in Beslan, Russia. Photograph: NTV/AP.
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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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A heavily armed gang seized at least 120  hostages at a Russian school near Chechnya on Wednesday and  threatened to kill 50 children for every one of their group who  was killed, a senior local official said.
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Hundreds of people, many of them children, spend another night in a school as hostages of an armed gang.