Nurse is held hostage at gunpoint
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A nurse is held hostage at gunpoint by a man who walked onto a ward and demanded drugs.
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âPlease help me. Please help me,â said a terrified Hassan, breaking down in tears and burying her face in a tissue. She said she might be killed like British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who was beheaded by his captors earlier this month.
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She had been looking down the barrel of a gun for about two hours. Abducted by two men on her way to work, forced into her car, raped twice, robbed of nearly every cent she had -- she did not know how this would end. But there, in the back seat of her car, as they sped down a road in Southeast...
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Militants in Iraq took a Polish woman hostage and claimed the grisly killing of 11 Iraqi soldiers, as more deadly violence yesterday took hold across the country.
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The escape of Kelvin D. Poke from Laurel Regional Hospital yesterday morning followed a familiar script: Get outside prison walls by going to a hospital, wait for an opportunity to seize an officer's gun and make a break for it. Poke did not make it far -- he was shot dead by Prince George's police...
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A gunman opened fire inside a grocery store Sunday afternoon, injuring two women and taking one of them hostage before police shot him to death, authorities said.
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Â· Man had to be stopped, says commander Â· Agitation displayed by victim added to suspicion
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BAGHDAD - Gunmen seized the head of CARE International&#39;s operations in Iraq - a woman who has worked on behalf of Iraqis for three decades - as the British government today weighed a politically volatile American request to transfer soldiers to dangerous
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ROCK HILL, S.C. - A police officer used a stun gun on a 75-year-old woman who became distraught when she could not locate a sick friend at a nursing home, according to an internal report.
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Medical staff are unable to save the life of a 14-year-old who was shot in Nottingham early on Saturday.
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An 87-year-old man visiting a family member at a convalescent home allegedly shot a nurse in the face Friday after he became angry about the care the relative was receiving, authorities said.
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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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Nurses are not given enough help and support from their bosses in dealing with violent patients, researchers say.
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At least one suspect took an unknown number of hostages Tuesday at the Mexican consulate, and a TV news camera later showed a man apparently being shot as he held a woman by the neck.
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MINNEAPOLIS - A woman who gave what she said were flu shots to more than two dozen people, then fled when asked for information about her credentials, was arrested Friday, police said.
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One rescued hostage details what happened during the 53-hour ordeal.
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The horrific murder of a nurse and a nursing assistant, in which one of the women was beheaded and the other had her throat slit, prompted emergency government talks yesterday on security in French hospitals.