Hostages unharmed as bus hijackers surrender
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Both armed hijackers, who threatened to kill the captives and blow the bus up, have surrendered. The two men, believed to be Albanians, exited the bus with their hands on the heads after throwing two shotguns out of the driverâs door.
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ATHENS, Dec 15  - Gunmen who commandeered a bus near Athens and demanded a ransom and safe conduct out of the country released four men and one woman Wednesday, police said, bringing to 17 the total number of passengers set free.
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Three foreign UN workers held hostage in Afghanistan were freed unharmed today, almost four weeks after they were abducted at gunpoint on the streets of the capital Kabul.
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ATHENS : Armed men hijacked a bus in an Athens suburb early Wednesday, taking some 20 passengers aboard hostage, a police source said.
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Two Turkish hostages were freed by Iraqi militants Sunday, a Turkish Foreign Ministry official said, less than a week after the men's employers said they were ending operations in Iraq to save the lives of their employees.
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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 armed men who hijacked a busload of hostages at gunpoint in the outskirts of Athens and demanded â¬1m (Â£690,000) ransom surrendered last night.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Three UN workers kidnapped in Afghanistan four weeks ago were released unharmed today, a day after a string of raids by US and Afghan security forces.
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Two armed men who hijacked a bus carrying two dozen passengers in Athens yesterday, and threatened to blow it up freed their remaining hostages last night and surrendered to police.
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Two armed perpetrators who hijacked an intercity bus carrying 25 passengers from Marathon to the Greek capital Athens have reportedly begun to release the hostages.
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Two armed men who hijacked a bus in the Greek capital and threatened to blow it up surrendered just after midnight Thursday local time and released their six remaining hostages.
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Athens - Two hijackers holding a Greek bus with about two dozen passengers aboard on Wednesday released five hostages, three women and two men.
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Members of a group of tribal Iraqi leaders kidnapped in Baghdad have been freed, a spokesman says.
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Three foreign U.N. workers held hostage  in Afghanistan were freed Tuesday, almost four weeks after they  were abducted at gunpoint on the streets of the capital Kabul,  government officials said.
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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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KABUL -- Three Afghan employees of a French aid organization, who had been held hostage for seven weeks by Taliban insurgents, were freed unharmed after local residents intervened, the governor of Nimruz Province, Ghulam Dastagir Azad, said yesterday. The three men were kidnapped along with two French aid workers on April 3. They had been working on a project for ...
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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.