Hostage Situation
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Hostage crisis unfolds in Paris suburb restaurant: report
TEHRAN, Nov. 16 (MNA) – A tense hostage situation is unfolding in the Parisian suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, as the son of the owner of the restaurant L'Olivier has taken several staff members captive.
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Prisoners with ISIL links take guards hostage in Russia
TEHRAN, Jun. 16 (MNA) – Six detainees, some with links to ISIL, took guards, hostage, at a pre-trial detention center in Russia's southern region of Rostov and demanded free passage in negotiations with the authorities.
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Dutch hostage situation continuing, 3 released
TEHRAN, Mar. 30 (MNA) – A hostage situation in a nightclub in the eastern Dutch town of Ede was continuing on Saturday, and three people have been released, police said in a statement.
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German school forced to evacuate after suspected gun threat
TEHRAN, Nov. 08 (MNA) – German police escorted students out of a school in the northern city of Hamburg on Wednesday, acting on information that two youths had gone into a classroom and brandished a gun, it said.
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79 police officers taken hostage in Colombia
TEHRAN, Mar. 04 (MNA) – Violence broke out in Colombia this week with protestors taking seventy-nine police officers hostages.
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1 killed, several injured in Pakistan hostage-taking incident
TEHRAN, Dec. 19 (MNA) – At least one policeman was killed and many others were injured in a hostage-taking incident in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province,
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Hostage-taking situation reported in Germany's Dresden
TEHRAN, Dec. 10 (MNA) – German police have evacuated a shopping mall and closed off a Christmas market in the eastern city of Dresden as officers respond to a “hostage situation.”
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Armed people hold bank staff hostage in Beirut (+VIDEO)
TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) – The Lebanese media on Wednesday reported that a number of armed people held bank staff hostage in one of the banks in the country's capital.