An active hostage situation is being reported from the Phillippines as a security guard at a Manila mall has taken several employees hostage. The local police have cordoned off the area.
Farrukhabad hostage: Accused Subhash Batham had fired from inside the house on those who tried to speak to him, police said, adding that a man and two policemen suffered a bullet injury. The motive of the accused was not known immediately.
A man held 15 children and few women hostage at a house in UP's Farrukhabad.
Twenty children have been taken into captivity in UP's Farrukhabad on Thursday. According to sources, the culprit identified as Subhash Batham was kidnapping children on the pretext on a birthday party.
Dr Rajkumar Chief Medical Officer (CMO) said, "Our team for polio immunization reached Lakipura area and there some people gathered. When our staff asked for the details of the children to register in the booklet then they misbehaved with them and held them hostage."
Their freedom came hours after the Afghan government freed three Taliban prisoners and sent them to Qatar. The three included Anas Haqqani, the younger brother of the Taliban’s deputy Sirajuddin Haqqani, who also leads the fearsome Haqqani network.
"Our troops did not know in advance that the Indian citizens were on the boats," the AA spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, the Indian government has not been notified of the release of Indian engineers and maintain they are in touch with the Afghanistan government as reports of the release have brought to their notice.
Travel Company Thomas Cook is believed to be on the brink of collapse as it needs to secure around £200million in funding on Sunday. Customers have claimed that they were held hostage and were prevented from leaving the property unless they paid extra fees on Saturday.
According to a police statement, a 60-year-old Swiss man took two women hostage on Friday morning and threatened to kill them if officers were to enter the building.
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The three female victims were employees of the nonprofit organisation Pathway Home treatment program, which is housed on the campus of the Veterans Home of California-Yountville.
Due to her failed marriage, she started behaving abornmally. To this, her parents kept her captive for 20 years!
A man briefly held a group of people hostage in a supermarket in a Brussels suburb before surrendering to police. Nobody was injured and authorities say there was no indication of any terrorist motive.
Two Indian teachers who were abducted in Libya’s Sirte, an area controlled by the Islamic State, over a year ago have been released, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Thursday.
Dhaka: The hostages were given a test: recite verses from the Quran, or be punished, according to a witness. Those who passed were allowed to eat. Those who failed were tortured and slain. The dramatic,
The attackers involved in Bangladesh’s worst hostage crisis had asked their victims to recite from the Quran in order to decide on whom to spare, a leading Bangladeshi daily said today on its website.
Cairo: A purported Islamic State group video released Wednesday threatened to kill a Croatian hostage if Egyptian authorities do not release "Muslim women" held in prison within 48 hours, a day before the country plans
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