After she was taken by her kidnappers, the kidnappers' car suddenly crashed.
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Eventually, Gail does believe the kidnappers' authenticity after Fifty shares the name of Paul's dogs — insider information that only the real kidnappers would know.
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"We recovered the former Afghan governor Fazlullah Wahidi from his kidnappers and arrested three kidnappers," said Javed Iqbal Wazir, police chief of the northwestern Swabi district from where Wahidi was rescued.
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They were nervous the police had links to the kidnappers.
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Over time, however, the kidnappers grew to like the abductee.
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It makes sense to Keith that Sherri's kidnappers are female.
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The kidnappers pocketed a ransom of $1.1m and shot Osvaldo.
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Murderers, Rapists, Kidnappers, Child Molestors, and Other Criminals on Board.
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His kidnappers must have thought they had hit the jackpot.
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"Whatever these people (kidnappers) demanded for was paid," Ssubi said.
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India is also rife with false rumors about child kidnappers.
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Many, she said, are being targeted by robbers and kidnappers.
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"The kidnappers did a clean job," a Mossad operative says.
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One of the kidnappers was released from prison last year.
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Kidnappers compose ransom letters from newsprint to elude handwriting experts.
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The kidnappers had promised to call back at 3 p.m.
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This time, he's rescuing a friend's daughter from her kidnappers.
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He said the kidnappers had tied wire around their necks.
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Motivated kidnappers aren't even deterred by GPS tracking microchips implanted in a person's body; there was a case in Mexico in 2010 where kidnappers reportedly dug a microchip out of a man's arm with scissors.
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The kidnappers demanded all phone calls be from a pay phone.
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"The kidnappers had a financial interest," he told reporters, Reuters said.
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Kidnappers expect to receive a lower ransom than they originally demand.
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They foil murderers, serial killers, kidnappers, terrorists, thieves, and drug dealers.
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The kidnappers later demanded a ransom of $500,000 for Endecott's release.
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The Abuja-Kaduna road has long been a haunt for kidnappers.
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The kidnappers later demanded a ransom of $500,000 for her release.
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There are no kidnappers' loans at your local Bank of America.
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The kidnappers had demanded a ransom of 40 million naira ($141,985).
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His kidnappers were a motley crew with varying levels of piety.
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In fact, the kidnappers had no links to the Hapilon faction.
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The players told their coach they were tortured by their kidnappers.
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Fifty-one inmates including murderers and kidnappers broke out of jail.
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Over the next few weeks, the kidnappers picked up two more
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Uy did not confirm that the kidnappers were Abu Sayyaf members.
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There was no evidence any of the men were actual kidnappers.
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But questions linger about whether the kidnappers got an inside tip.
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What the kidnappers hadn't considered was that he might not want to.
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In October, kidnappers took four Britons in Delta state in the south.
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It's about a woman who gets kidnapped who then joins her kidnappers.
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The road connecting Abuja and Kaduna has long been targeted by kidnappers.
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Before he can pony up, however, Doug loses contact with the kidnappers.
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Should I bow to the kidnappers' demands and give up my writing?
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What would my father think of the peace deal with his kidnappers?
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He said the kidnappers would be punished if the deadline wasn't met.
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It was published from Fuentes' Twitter account, hacked into by the kidnappers.
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According to the BBC, the kidnappers were on their way to Mali.
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The kidnappers released her and her two sons near the U.S. border.
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Episode 8 is spoken entirely in the Calabrian dialect of Paul's kidnappers.
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Some of the bogus messages described gangs of kidnappers on the prowl.
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If the authorities know the kidnappers' identities, they have not said so.
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The owner, John Hamilton, quickly filed a lawsuit against the kidnappers, and
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On the one hand, the kidnappers need to extract a huge ransom.
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The kidnappers are looking for 36.5 million bucks to get her back. .
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Two French soldiers were killed in the raid, along with four kidnappers.
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Elizabeth Smart is speaking out about the release of one of her kidnappers.
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But as his kidnappers had quickly realised, he is an unusually determined character.
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The kidnappers then used Endicott's cell phone to demand a ransom of $500,000.
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The Ku Klux Klan is taking recruitment tips from sitcom kidnappers now, apparently.
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Something I found interesting in the description is the mention of separatist kidnappers.
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We despise it and call the people that act on these premises kidnappers.
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An anonymous informant had provided Dutch authorities with the identities of the kidnappers.
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He said kidnappers demanded 10 million naira (around $30,000) to release his father.
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The boys were released four days later, without the kidnappers receiving any money.
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He suspects the kidnappers thought they would be easier to force into cars.
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Like a despot, the crown prince has a team of killers and kidnappers.
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The police said they arrested the kidnappers the morning after Mahsa was found.
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A fusillade of calls and texts with threats from the kidnappers soon followed.
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The victims were freed, and the kidnappers were caught and went to prison.
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His body was found several days later, chopped into pieces by his kidnappers.
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The kidnappers searched Ana, looking for slips of paper with U.S. telephone numbers.
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Wild Frontiers said the identities of the alleged kidnappers have not been revealed.
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Officials blamed the crowd and rumors that kidnappers were taking children off the streets.
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A crowd formed around the kidnappers who then fired warning shots into the air.
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The kidnappers had not been captured but police were on their trail, he said.
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In Lagos some taxi-drivers are even thought to be in cahoots with kidnappers.
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She's taking him to meet with the kidnappers who are holding his friend hostage.
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"Paying ransom to kidnappers puts Americans even more at risk," said Illinois Republican Sen.
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They paid the kidnappers and the private security firm a fee of $600,000 each.
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Governments, families, companies, insurance companies, all pay terrorists and kidnappers to get people back.
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At night, they go in a kennel to stay safe from unwanted intruders/kidnappers.
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"At the moment, the identity of the kidnappers is not known," the statement said.
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The kidnappers are demanding to be paid in pounds sterling divided into 4 bags.
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The kidnappers had demanded a ransom of 6m pesos ($20143,000) from Mr Pulido's family.
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Kidnappers looking for a major payout will often target the heirs of wealthy individuals.
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The Australian government has said it does not pay ransom demands made by kidnappers.
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The kidnappers, naturally, threaten to dispose of their hostage if the cops are called.
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The family was able to send $8,000, but didn't hear back from the kidnappers.
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The police lucked out: One woman was on duty and the kidnappers were caught.
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The kidnappers demanded $1 million for the brothers' release, according to the Houston Chronicle.
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He plays an inspector named Efraín Robles who rescues a Venezuelan businessman from kidnappers.
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He said that the kidnappers may not even have been aware of his identity.
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In India, false rumors about child kidnappers circulating through WhatsApp led to mob violence.
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After their conversion to Islam, the hostages prayed, ate and sat with their kidnappers.
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The kidnappers entered the gym through hotel gates police believe were left open deliberately.
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Gomez said there are now hundreds, and possibly thousands, of gangs of organized kidnappers.
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Four days after the kidnapping, two of the kidnappers were in the vicinity of Stockholm.
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Nine of the kidnappers were captured, some of whom belonged to a prominent Mafia organization.
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A boy found in Kentucky says he escaped from kidnappers after disappearing eight years ago.
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In the clip above, the actress pleads with her son's kidnappers to set him free.
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Kidnappers and Foreign AgentsIt was a sunny March morning when I first spoke to Sarang.
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Participants have included convicted kidnappers, prison gangsters, an assassin and world boxing icon Manny Pacquiao.
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In Holmes' car, the two kidnappers and their victim drove to the San Mateo Bridge.
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The kidnappers killed him when they drew their firearms and shot the victim from above.
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The industry argues that this spying is necessary to track terrorists, kidnappers and drug lords.
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Four other crew members were left behind by the kidnappers who came in a speedboat.
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Two kidnappers fall for her and move her to the top of a wind turbine.
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The kidnappers later used the American's cellphone to demand the $500,000 ransom, the police said.
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Quintanilla said he was able to do this thanks to the "carelessness" of the kidnappers.
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The kidnappers killed Mr. Somers and a South African who was being held with him.
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That led some Tucsonians to speculate that the kidnappers had been enticed by his wealth.
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Britain and Canada, like the US, refuse to pay ransoms to kidnappers holding their citizens.
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She didn't have a dollar to spare, much less the thousands the kidnappers were demanding.
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They are at the mercy of cartels and kidnappers, who see them as easy prey.
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The kidnappers demanded that Wasil's father give himself up in return for his son's release.
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Rumors of child kidnappers in vans, for instance, had surfaced in past months and years.
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Soon thereafter, the kidnappers released Erik and gave him a pack of cigarettes and some matches.
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It is unclear if the incident was random or if the woman knew her alleged kidnappers.
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She told police her alleged kidnappers fed her, bringing her fast food meals to subsist on.
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The kidnappers require her not only to pay a ransom but also to kidnap another child.
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She told police her kidnappers did feed her, bringing her fast food meals to subsist on.
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His kidnappers switched cars on the way to their destination, a house outside the Russian capital.
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He said he had just escaped from two kidnappers who'd been holding him for seven years.
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"Timmothy described the two kidnappers as two male, whites, body-builder type build," reads the report.
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After sealing the hole, the kidnappers took off, leaving their hostages buried alive for 103 hours.
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The kidnappers — James Schoenfeld, Richard Schoenfeld and Frederick Woods — were caught, convicted and sentenced to life.
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In recent months, many high profile Nigerians have been targeted by kidnappers with some demanding ransom.
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Ayling was eventually released by one of the kidnappers although no ransom was paid, officials said.
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READ: How Frank Sinatra changed the world The kidnappers were nabbed within hours, the FBI said.
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Buhari promised additional security personnel and planes were being made available to hunt for the kidnappers.
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The boy managed to escape after his mother shouted and struggled with the would-be kidnappers.
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The kidnappers want a ransom, and here some of Farhadi's favorite fault lines begin to show.
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Australia does not pay ransom to kidnappers, as a matter of policy, Bishop said in April.
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This was the usual method: kidnappers delayed, so that you worked yourself up into a panic.
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Moreno had set a 12-hour deadline Thursday night for kidnappers to provide proof of life.
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Benge was not able to say who the kidnappers were, and did not rule out secessionists.
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Four of the kidnappers were killed during the rescue and two were reported to have escaped.
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The American was freed, four kidnappers were arrested, another was killed and two policemen were wounded.
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Earlier this year, kidnappers targeted a Brazilian woman who was, notably, married to a bitcoin businessman.
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At one point their kidnappers went outside and her daughter realized they left the door open.
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Schrier says that the kidnappers were adamant about proving that he worked for the American government.
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She traveled the country chasing down leads, sometimes buying wigs and tailing suspected kidnappers in disguise.
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That raid ended with the kidnappers killing the journalist and a South African held with him.
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She managed to pull together a few thousand dollars from family members to pay the kidnappers.
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Other relatives dreaded the prospect of their girls being raped and impregnated by the unknown kidnappers.
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Garrido was interrogated for six hours and then let go, but the kidnappers kept his equipment.
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Kidnappers preyed on poor children and families who didn&apost have the means to fight back.
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"The kidnappers put this into play and so they're ultimately responsible for the outcome," Ligon said.
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Yantko also went on to claim that Lucy's kidnappers had been watching her before the incident.
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He appears healthy except for rope marks where kidnappers tied his hands and legs, he said.
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At one point, the kidnappers cut off Getty's ear and mailed it to a Rome newspaper.
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Groups of kidnappers were roaming the poorer suburbs of Paris in utility vans to snatch children.
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The men deliver a message from their kidnappers to the U.S. and Australian governments in the footage.
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In December last year, he told a local radio station that he shot three kidnappers in 1998.
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SPA said a security officer and one of the kidnappers were killed in a clash on Dec.
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His father was also kidnapped in 2011, when the kidnappers demanded a $4 billion ransom from Chelsea.
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Most of the kidnappers were released due to lack of evidence, but two were convicted and imprisoned.
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Kidnappers may search for victims on dating platforms, asking questions that reveal whether they have any money.
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Former President Alvaro Uribe Velez opposes the peace deal, saying it gives "impunity" to murderers and kidnappers.
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He ransomed a Christian woman from her kidnappers; he generously redistributed the wealth he took in plunder.
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The kidnappers reportedly want a ransom fee of $228 million to set Ecclestone's mother-in-law free.
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"There is no rhyme or reason for [the kidnappers] never making a request for money," he says.
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The journalist's brother-in-law was beaten by the kidnappers as he tried to fend them off.
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The identities, affiliation, and motivation of the kidnappers was not yet clear, the sources said on Saturday.
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But Nadia Burch said the kidnappers had not contacted her and she was unsure of their identity.
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Kidnappers held the nine-year-old son of a timber tycoon in a hole in the woods.
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Why else would the kidnappers send their threats to Paco's wife as well as the teenager's mother?
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The kidnappers had said to her father, Tell your daughter Chimamanda to come up with the money.
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WhatsApp messages warning residents of possible kidnappers had been circulating in Dhule for 10 to 15 days.
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A finger on his left hand is missing — cut off with scissors, he said, by the kidnappers.
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A few years later, kidnappers abducted a man for ransom in India, mistaking him for Mr. Povlsen.
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Military officials suspect someone working at the school in Nkwen acted as an accomplice to the kidnappers.
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He has boasted about his tenure in Davao, and admitted to personally killing three kidnappers without trial.
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She said the kidnappers were Oromo, but she did not know if they represented an organized group.
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Clutching a gun handed to him by his kidnappers, Lakor was ordered to "shoot everything you see".
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"They scampered away to different directions but we are pursuing them," the general said of the kidnappers.
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Others raised questions about the theory that Mr. Regeni had been killed by a gang of kidnappers.
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But the raid ended with the kidnappers killing the journalist and a South African held with him.
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When he met the kidnappers to hand it over, they were in police uniforms, their faces unmasked.
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Maybe she was being moved via airplane by the group of people associated with her car kidnappers.
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The bank robbers, kidnappers, Mafiosi, gangbangers, and Wall Street robber barons would still receive some deserved attention.
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The police caught the kidnappers with the help of the app, and Åhman was rescued two days later.
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Although he didn't know the amount the kidnappers were asking for, he had harsher words for his government.
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North Korea calls them criminals and describes those who try to bring them to South Korea as kidnappers.
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A cheap smuggler greatly increases your chances of being abandoned in the desert or being delivered to kidnappers.
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Mobs in India enraged by WhatsApp messages killed dozens of people falsely believed to be kidnappers in 2018.
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If a family agrees on a price too soon, most kidnappers sense the chance to up their demand.
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No ransom has been demanded as yet and the kidnappers have not made contact with police, Okasamni said.
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A rescue operation has been launched to find the Turkish nationals and arrest the kidnappers, the spokesman said.
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Several questions remain unanswered, such as: why did the kidnappers keep Regeni's belongings for weeks after killing him?
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The police spokesman also declined to comment on whether the bitcoin ransom demanded by the kidnappers was paid.
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The captives were "tortured and seriously injured" by their kidnappers before their release, the human rights group alleged.
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But after a payment was made, the kidnappers stopped communicating with Kopko's family and he is still missing.
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Now the woman is Merry Mansfield, a con artist, who rear-ends cars for kidnappers for a living.
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WhatsApp messages warning residents of possible kidnappers had been circulating in the area for 10 to 15 days.
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They also spoke about the benefits of humanizing yourself to your kidnappers and trying to understand their motivations.
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Guided by texts from Anna's kidnappers, Matt barges across London and through situations of varying seediness and peril.
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The hostages were "tortured and seriously injured" by their kidnappers before their release, the human rights group alleged.
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It's like if you have a child, and you give the kidnappers money, you're not buying your child.
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But another type of criminal is also demanding bitcoin in exchange for releasing something, or someone: traditional kidnappers.
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The kidnappers eventually asked for a ransom, which negotiators agreed to pay into a secret Swiss bank account.
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Shaken as she was after her escape, she was still able to help the police find her kidnappers.
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The kidnappers return to the cave, ecstatic: It's the largest ransom ever received in those parts by far.
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The captives were "tortured and seriously injured" by their kidnappers before their release, the human rights group said.
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The hostages were "tortured and seriously injured" by their kidnappers before their release, the human rights group said.
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And this is true down to the location of the first scene, Calabria, where kidnappers often came from.
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At other times, he spoke of stabbing a man at a beach and shooting kidnappers in police raids.
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Makamba said that Dewji had bruises on his hands and feet from being tied up by his kidnappers.
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Opondo said the kidnappers fled the scene of the rescue when law enforcement officers and soldiers moved in.
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Brian Rini, 23, claimed to be the missing boy and provided elaborate details to police about escaping kidnappers.
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According to a government official, the kidnappers fled the scene when law enforcement officers and soldiers moved in.
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The camera stays focused on Monse during the abduction, blurring out the faces of the kidnappers and their van.
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The kidnappers had targeted him in an attempt to extort about €5 million [$5,213,200 USD] from the Bengtsson family.
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Colombian authorities later determined that three intelligence agents with Ecuador&aposs police had contracted the kidnappers to abduct Balda.
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About 100 children have managed to return to Ethiopia, but the rest remain in the kidnappers' hands, Chany said.
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Another Chinese woman narrowly evaded the kidnappers outside a language center in Jinnah, on the city's outskirts, he added.
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Five kidnappers were arrested in the raid and would be tried, he said, adding that no one was hurt.
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" Journalist Nandini Ramnath said the video was "appropriately funereal" and compared it to those "released by kidnappers and terrorists.
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It can be hard to resist the money and the help from cartels, particularly when murderous kidnappers are involved.
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"Fuck Trump" and "fuck white people" are heard as the kidnappers—all black—attack their captive, a white man.
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Mr Seoane recalls a case where kidnappers turned up at a pig farm and asked to buy 20 pigs.
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The news outlet cites military intelligence as saying that the execution happened, as the kidnappers promised, on Monday afternoon.
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The police detained three of the kidnappers immediately and captured the remaining two after a short chase, he said.
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Lukasz Pawel Herba, a Polish citizen and British resident, was arrested on suspicion of being one of the kidnappers.
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In the original television miniseries, Kinte is captured on the beach by a white guy and two black kidnappers.
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This suggests that 98% are not reported, perhaps because people mistrust the police, who often moonlight as kidnappers themselves.
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He describes his kidnappers as white men covered in tattoos on their necks and arms who look like bodybuilders.
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Pakistan was able to free the family after their kidnappers moved them from Afghanistan over the border into Pakistan.
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They added that the hunt for the kidnappers, including "raids and extensive searches," is taking place in southwestern Uganda.
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He had a cut on his head from when the kidnappers threw him into the trunk of the car.
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"We are telling all the people that there are kidnappers here, so be careful with your children," Ahmed said.
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Their kidnappers were members of Los Zetas drug cartel, according to Morelos State Secretary of Interior Pablo Ojeda Cardenas.
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Abu Mohammed heard a voice from the walkie-talkies carried by the kidnappers: Leave everything and get out now.
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The official said he did not know the identity of the kidnappers and that Wild Frontiers paid the ransom.
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Nine people have now been killed in a month of hysteria over child kidnappers spread by rumors on WhatsApp.
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The kidnappers beat him and locked him in a wooden cage after he initially refused to call his family.
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In 2003, she was found walking down a Utah street with her kidnappers, just 5 miles from her home.
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The villagers sent video of the men to a nearby village of Murki falsely claiming they were child kidnappers.
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This is just one of many incidents in which rumors of child kidnappers led to deadly violence in India.
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Back at home, though, she received a call from the kidnappers: They had been unable to access the money.
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Villagers sent out WhatsApp messages alleging that child kidnappers had fled toward Shobhapur village in a Tata Indica car.
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David said the kidnappers took his few belongings, including the paperwork U.S. Customs and Border Protection had given him.
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But the raid ended in tragedy, with the kidnappers killing the journalist and a South African held with him.
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In Rome, Gail struggles with the kidnappers, police and paparazzi while trying to interest Getty Sr. in his grandson.
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The kidnappers told the family that the man would be killed if the money was not paid, the complaint said.
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In Tennessee, Lira recalled that when she was a child some friends worried about being lured into vans by kidnappers.
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The identity of the kidnappers is still unknown, and the American and South Korean hostages, who are female, remain unnamed.
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Police officers are sometimes forced to guard water trucks, popular targets for kidnappers who sell their contents for hefty prices.
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Few realised the danger when one crew of Muslim insurgents-cum-kidnappers, Abu Sayyaf, pledged allegiance to IS in 2015.
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She cracks codes, thwarts kidnappers, and solves puzzles, eventually earning herself a place alongside Sherlock as a praised private investigator.
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To be specific, the kidnappers, according to court documents, were Jehovah's Witnesses and they believed the Great Tribulation was here.
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There has been no claim of responsibility for the incident and the kidnappers have yet to be identified, police said.
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Speaking at a news conference in Riyadh, the ministry spokesman, Mansour al-Turki, warned the kidnappers not to harm Jirani.
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The police have access to the database of all mobile phones users to trace the kidnappers who are demanding ransom.
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Forba said the kidnappers had asked the students to tell if them if their parents had high-ranking government positions.
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Others fall into the hands of kidnappers who sell them into slavery in Libya, as a recent CNN investigation discovered.
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The Heineken family handed a driver five sacks containing the ransom money in four currencies, as the kidnappers had specified.
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Barrera himself, after brushes with extortionists and kidnappers who may have once been Pemex colleagues, recently sought asylum in Canada.
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The same year, kidnappers in Costa Rica targeted a Canadian expat and demanded tens of thousands of dollars in bitcoin.
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That may be the case with some kidnappers and bitcoin too: in all three of these cases, authorities arrested suspects.
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It has highlighted worries that the egalitarian-minded country's practice of publishing people's tax returns could be handy to kidnappers.
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Back in Paris, her husband doesn't much care that she's gone, even after the kidnappers threaten to physically harm her.
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He stressed the "unusual" phone call, and questioned whether the kidnappers would release their captive without first collecting a ransom.
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She said she had subsisted on fruit, bread and jam, potato chips and graham crackers that the kidnappers had left.
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Mr. Makamba said that Mr. Dewji had bruises on his hands and feet from being tied up by his kidnappers.
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A brother of Ms. Duque tried to rescue Dixy, but the kidnappers killed him on the spot, the family said.
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The Aquarium also shared recorded footage of the kidnapping on its Facebook page to try to track down the kidnappers.
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The kidnappers struck in November, after José and his son had already attended two court hearings in the United States.
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It was during a routine operation, he recalled, when his bosses sent him to eliminate a group of local kidnappers.
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Opponents claim that he has consorted with kidnappers, murderers, and drug dealers, and that members of his family are corrupt.
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Her body was found two weeks later, even after the kidnappers had been paid a ransom, according to local media.
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He said the kidnappers had freed Dewji by dumping him in a field in the early hours of Saturday morning.
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Other migrants live in small rented rooms, in abandoned buildings, and in hotels, which are also frequently raided by kidnappers.
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The family was in the trunk of a car when their kidnappers were caught in a shootout with Pakistani forces.
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When the kidnappers stuffed her into a dog crate, Aurora panicked, and beat her wings frantically until they were bloody.
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She managed to break free from her kidnappers thanks to the help from a cleaning lady in the mall bathroom.
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As soon as the ransom was collected, the kidnappers put Ann-Marie in a taxi to be sent to her parents.
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"Start walking, you are free, don't look back" was the last thing the kidnappers told him before they let him go.
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The kidnappers allegedly told the woman's agent to pay a ransom of $300,000 to stop the dark web sale, police said.
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Not only is it physically risky, since you're riding on top, but it's also a target for cartels, kidnappers, and robbers.
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Velazquez, according to the prosecutor, alerted the suspected kidnappers the moment Pulido left a party Saturday night in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico.
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Shortly after Ray's interview with TMZ, Princess took a more stern approach to the situation, threatening legal action against Boogotti's kidnappers.
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The kidnappers were wearing military uniforms, the official said, but not the design and color of the official Afghan army uniform.
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No one has contacted Mexican authorities to report the men missing, and authorities have not heard from the kidnappers, Almaguer said.
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Martinez said popped the trunk when the car stopped and grabbed one of the kidnappers' guns, shooting him in the neck.
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There, she was kept handcuffed to a chest of drawers for six days while kidnappers demanded a ransom from her agent.
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Kidnappers decided to let her go, prosecutors told the BBC, when they found out she had a two-year-old son.
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On the recording, the kidnappers described themselves as a "professional group there to collect financial debts," according to the court documents.
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Governor Ambode said evictions across the city are necessary to protect Lagos residents from kidnappers and criminals hiding in the slums.
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Ransomware often goes unreported, bitcoin payments are hard to track and many digital kidnappers are protected by friendly Eastern European governments.
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But on that particular summer afternoon, two masked, armed kidnappers invaded the family's home, taping up two staffers and snatching Piper.
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Many of those who manage to flee their ISIS kidnappers find themselves held to ransom, at the mercy of unscrupulous smugglers.
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The Indonesian police said later that the kidnappers had contacted the Indonesian owner of the vessel and had made ransom demands.
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According to Ignatius, this led the Chinese government to act as bin Salman's kidnappers when Obaid flew from Shanghai to Beijing.
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I thought, because of my experience in my country, that they might be kidnappers, that they might want to hurt me.
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In the process of escaping their kidnappers, they learn a few things about themselves, each other, and their unbreakable bond. Aww.
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He said members of the separatist group had been ordered to search communities in the region to uncover the kidnappers' hideout.
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A school spokesman said the kidnappers might be English-speaking secessionists who want independence from Cameroon's largely French-influenced government. 3.
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Various illegal groups from Somali Islamists to Congolese-based rebels sometimes operate in Uganda, but the kidnappers' identity was not known.
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Jalisco's governor, Aristoteles Sandoval, said through his official Twitter account that a search was underway for the victims and the kidnappers.
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"The aliens we encounter are not narco bosses and murderous kidnappers but their victims: bewildered, disoriented, helpless migrants," wrote our reviewer.
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He looked bruised, said he had been held against his will by kidnappers for years, and just wanted to go home.
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All five were killed, and the police issued a statement calling them a gang of kidnappers who had been targeting foreigners.
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The kidnappers locked the woman in the trunk of a car and took her to a remote location, the police said.
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In India last year, rumors about child kidnappers went viral on WhatsApp, prompting fearful mobs to kill two dozen innocent people.
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Schrier says the kidnappers also stole his debit and credit cards and used them to buy items for thousands of dollars.
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Most victims are Afghans and many kidnappers are criminal gangs seeking ransoms but foreigners have also been abducted for political ends.
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The kidnappers dropped him in a narrow pit, shackled him into a squat, and sealed the pit with a heavy lid.
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We were latchkey kids, or the children of divorce (more widespread among our parents' generation than theirs), raised to fear kidnappers.
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But the kidnappers killed the professor, then dumped his body in a Taliban-controlled area to implicate the militants, he said.
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Police said they would keep searching for the kidnappers and urged the suspects to "seek legal counsel and turn themselves in."
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Had Ms Rukundo s kidnappers completed the job, eight children would have lost their mother, Chief Justice Marilyn Warren said in court.
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Not wanting to go by herself, and unable to grasp the concept of abduction, she tearfully asked the kidnappers to join her.
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The kidnappers demanded that about €2000 million [$221,2000,240 USD] in cash was attached to a wire under a bridge outside of Paris.
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The letter, which was addressed to John Ramsey, said the kidnappers were a foreign faction demanding money for the return of JonBenet.
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In July, residents of a rural Indian town beat five strangers to death after they saw rumors of child kidnappers on WhatsApp.
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Situated on Borneo's northeast coast, Tarakan is the nearest Indonesian naval base to kidnappers' hunting grounds in the Celebes and Sulu Seas.
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Samuel Fonki, a minister of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon, said he had been mediating with the kidnappers for the children's release.
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They said the kidnappers had demanded an undisclosed ransom for Thierry Frezier, an employee of a French mining company operating in Chad.
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The kidnappers' demands for the release of the two hostages, a man and a woman, had been "impossible" to meet, he said.
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Although his mother and brother make public statements doubting the events, one of his kidnappers in the bizarre abduction eventually pleaded guilty.
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No one has contacted Mexican authorities to report the men missing, and authorities have not heard from the kidnappers either, Almaguer said.
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The others repeated this story, and the interviewer said how miraculous it was that they had escaped the hell of such kidnappers.
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Over the next 9113 hours, Vence said, he drifted in and out of consciousness in the back of the kidnappers' pickup truck.
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Four years later, he opened Cape Kidnappers in Hawke's Bay on New Zealand's North Island, built on a 5000-acre sheep farm.
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She told authorities she managed to escape two captors wearing ski masks, but that the kidnappers still had her infant daughter, Shaylie.
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Soon after Maleah's disappearance, her mother said it was easier to believe Vence's story that a trio of kidnappers took her child.
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Various illegal groups from Somali militant Islamists to Congolese-based rebels sometimes operate in Uganda, but the kidnappers' identity was not known.
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Security agencies are already deploying extra forces to secure Kaduna's airport and its highway to Abuja, a route often targeted by kidnappers.
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A teenager discovered by locals in north Kentucky Wednesday morning claimed to be Timmothy and said he'd just escaped his 2 kidnappers.
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Weyerhaeuser's family received a ransom note instructing them to communicate with the kidnappers through coded advertisements placed in local newspapers' classified sections.
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The men were nearly suffocated with plastic bags and had their genitals shocked with electric current before being presented as confessed kidnappers.
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In August, they agreed to allow "hot pursuits" of kidnappers and armed robbers by their maritime security forces into one another's territory.
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Emmanuel was unable to pay a ransom to her kidnappers, so Stevens stepped in to pay the money and bought her freedom.
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When the kidnappers called her mother, her mother had asked to hear her husband's voice, but the man on the line refused.
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The kidnappers knew all about them: they said that Okey or a particular son-in-law could go, but no one else.
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His wife told reporters that he had been dropping his kids off at a sporting event when, witnesses said, kidnappers seized him.
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But instead of promising to protect innocent and helpless women from Eastern European kidnappers, he's promising to protect them from political correctness.
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Quintanilla fleshed out this version of events after the idea of such careless kidnappers triggered a wave of skepticism on social media.
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What Paul doesn't know yet is that Getty has negotiated a deal with the kidnappers to return little Paul for $5 million.
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Per an 11th-hour change to Primo's original instructions, the kidnappers are supposed to call and tell them where to find Paul.
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Ngono Horace Manga, the university's vice chancellor, told CNN on Thursday that the kidnappers had demanded a ransom to free the students.
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When our government makes references to their commitment to hostages and then parses Bob's situation as having "disappeared," they enable his kidnappers.
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Kidnappers abducted Noorullah Ahmadi at gunpoint, then sent Shukrullah Ahmadi a video of his brother being tortured; they cut off Noorullah's ear.
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As he and the other kidnappers wait outside of Hadrian's Villa for Getty and Don Salvatore to finish negotiations, Primo approaches Chace.
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But it was when she was scared at the cabin and being chased by kidnappers that her powers came out the most.
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Only "1 percent of all kidnappers are captured and carried to justice," said Torres Landa, the Mexico United Against Organized Crime consultant.
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BELGRADE (Reuters) - A Serbian engineer who was abducted by unidentified kidnappers in Libya has been freed, the Serbian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
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" In Murki, messages circulating in a local WhatsApp group, late in the day Azam was killed, simply said: "Child kidnappers found in Murki.
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Like the Dogtooth parents, James' kidnappers have built a world of weird false premises and arbitrary rules, which James takes utterly for granted.
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Officers also noted there were no signs of injury to her arms, despite her claims she struggled with the kidnappers, reports the paper.
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"Uganda must find the kidnappers of the American Tourist and guide before people will feel safe in going there," Trump tweeted on Monday.
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He knows that several years ago the family received a real hostage video from Bob's kidnappers in which he pleads for his life.
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Her boyfriend had reported to police that she'd been abducted from his California home at gunpoint and the kidnappers demanded an $8,500 ransom.
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A fourth man, a German, was shot dead after trying to resist the kidnappers, according to the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, a CNN affiliate.
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The operation involved a shootout with the kidnappers with some being killed in the firefight and others being arrested, according to the official.
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In one notorious case, the 22013-year-old daughter of a wealthy businessman was kidnapped and killed despite her family paying kidnappers $2400,242.
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His father, a butcher, received a phone call three hours later: the boy had been abducted, and his kidnappers wanted two million pesos.
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The kidnappers had wanted more, Mr. Safi said, and they kidnapped the second GIZ staff member in retaliation, demanding an even larger ransom.
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The kidnappers then disposed of the body in the trash bin on Long Island, doused it with gasoline and set it on fire.
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Amazing — Iran finally has been requested by our government to compensate our American U.S. Embassy employees violently taken hostage by Iranian terrorist kidnappers.
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The ministry declined to comment on what military efforts, if any, had been underway to rescue the hostages when the kidnappers' deadline approached.
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"I don't think you have to watch too many Law & Order episodes to realize kidnappers don't usually wear fluorescent green shirts," he said.
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In India, false rumors about child kidnappers have gone viral on WhatsApp, prompting fearful mobs to kill two dozen innocent people since April.
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In India this year, false messages about child kidnappers went viral on WhatsApp, leading to mob violence that has killed dozens of people.
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Last year, two German archaeologists were seized at gunpoint less than 60 miles northeast of Abuja and later freed unharmed by their kidnappers.
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"When the news of the abduction first broke, it was clear that Pulido's family had already established contact with the kidnappers," Morales said.
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We listened before bed so I could sleep a little better, and stave off the nightmares of kidnappers yanking babies from my arms.
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But there's a second twist: John Esposito, one of Hollywood Harvey Weinstein's defense attorneys, represented one of the formal-wear Harvey Weinstein's kidnappers.
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Libyan special forces tracked down the location where the men were being held and raided it, freeing eight hostages and arresting four kidnappers.
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This summer in India, two dozen innocent people died at the hands of mobs convinced that they were meting out justice to kidnappers.
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" In Murki, messages circulating in a local WhatsApp group, late in the day Azam was killed, simply said: "Child kidnappers found in Murki.
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She'd estimated it had lasted four or five years, but her kidnappers had always kept her deliberately confused about the passage of time.
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According to an interview that Ayling gave to The Sun, there were five kidnappers in all, though she only encountered two of them.
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Photo: GettyTwo young men were beaten to death in India on Saturday after residents suspected they were child kidnappers, the BBC and Aljazeera report.
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Finally, in the episode's waning moments, the detectives are called back to the Purcell house because the family received a note from Julie's kidnappers.
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In an interview with Reuters in Cairo, Khaled al-Obaidi said the kidnappers spotted the three Americans as they repeatedly visited the same place.
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The kidnappers managed to escape, the security official added, saying the troops wouldn't fire at the fleeing captors for fear of harming the hostages.
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"These personnel were searching for the kidnappers of a U.S. citizen and her family," said David Hale, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, in a statement.
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Left alone with one of the kidnappers, he managed to untie himself, beat the man unconscious and use his phone to call for help.
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The Dutch public was scandalized when the kidnappers marked the occasion by throwing a decadent party at which a band performed a Heineken jingle.
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Read more: 11 times kidnappers targeted millionaires and high-profile executives around the globeJAB Holding has set about addressing the controversy through philanthropic contributions.
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Suspected killers, kidnappers and others facing federal felony charges, no matter their ages, are entitled to court-appointed lawyers if they cannot afford them.
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In a sign of how technology and crime intersects, sometimes unsuccessfully, this is far from the only case of kidnappers trying to use cryptocurrency.
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He is courageous, but his book lacks any conclusion; we are left with no recommendations for a more cohesive policy toward governments and kidnappers.
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The attack underlines how difficult operating in Afghanistan has become for humanitarian aid bodies, which have faced heavy pressure from armed groups and kidnappers.
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A. The kidnappers were playing with fire if they used any of the highly toxic species of night-blooming flowers in the Datura genus.
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Ana gave her the number of a brother in the U.S. In a separate room, hidden from her, the kidnappers negotiated over the phone.
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Melton told the kidnappers to send messages to Janssen's wife saying her husband and others would be hurt if undisclosed demands were not met.
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Kidnappers took Gerson Quevado, a 19-year-old architecture student, from outside a convenience store in the town of Medellin de Bravo in March 2014.
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The kidnappers, a man and and woman who remained anonymous, claimed they were going to drive her to a school trip she had just missed.
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Despite explaining to them that she did not have the money, the kidnappers refused to believe that the boy's grandfather would abandon his own family.
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Norway's police said Wednesday the missing wife of one of Norway's richest men has been abducted, and that her suspected kidnappers have demanded a ransom.
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Mike Vogel (Under the Dome) plays the Special Ops leader in charge of extracting a Doctors Without Borders physician from Syrian kidnappers in the pilot.
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That joint operation led investigators to a hotel in Anaheim, where, the press statement claims, they saved a 17-year-old girl from alleged kidnappers.
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In the video, the alleged kidnappers can be heard shouting expletives about white people and Donald Trump, as the victim is tied up and beaten.
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YAOUNDE (Reuters) - A Tunisian engineer has been killed by his kidnappers in southwest Cameroon, but three of his colleagues have been rescued, the government said.
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In hot pursuit of Young Ian, Jamie and Claire find a ship to take them to the West Indies, where the kidnappers were apparently headed.
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The Mexican army, marines, federal police, state police and the country's top prosecution office were searching for the missing men and their kidnappers, Almaguer said.
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"There is no word yet on them or the kidnappers but we are on their trail," said Ikechukwu Chukwu, a spokesman for Akwa Ibom police.
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More than 500 kidnappers have entered the southern state of Karnataka from western Rajasthan state and the cities of Chennai and Hyderabad, the message said.
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Although it is ostensibly a relatively liberal and staunchly anti-Islamist political outfit, the authorities claim it runs a shadow organisation of extortionists and kidnappers.
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In addition, in Mindanao the United States is helping to combat Abu Sayyaf, a gang of kidnappers that has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.
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Kidnappings were more common in Igboland than anywhere else, and it was well known that it was often your own relatives who were the kidnappers.
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A rumor that child kidnappers were operating in the mainly rural area had been circulating on WhatsApp and Facebook groups for days, police told CNN.
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After pictures of Murtaza went viral on social media, his family feared that after becoming famous worldwide, he could be abducted by kidnappers for ransom.
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Matt: At GJS Security, we were taught that kidnappers need you to create a predictable pattern and make yourself vulnerable for them to be successful.
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Migrants who travel alone and without papers in Mexico are frequent prey for kidnappers and smugglers, in addition to risking detention or extortion by police.
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The rest -- about 113 -- have either died, been married off or become radicalized and don't want to leave their Boko Haram kidnappers, sources told CNN.
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I could go out of the compound to the toilet at night, but the translator said if we escaped the kidnappers would punish the family.
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He sent an armed counterterrorism team to guard the 21 bags of cash and make sure no one could spirit them off to the kidnappers.
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How else would kidnappers prove that their victims were still alive on a given day other than by photographing them holding that day's Late Final?
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The rescued man's shock over the killing of his kidnappers is the result of a syndrome and the success of the SEALs' mission remains unambiguous.
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In mid-January, a New America Foundation report found that 23 of the 90 hostages murdered by their kidnappers between 2001 and 2016 were Americans.
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Kidnappers were also known to sell their victims to other criminal groups as a faster means to cash before the original ransom demands were met.
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Dozens were killed in India last year by mobs after false rumors about child kidnappers went viral on WhatsApp, the messaging app owned by Facebook.
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The kidnappers has earlier demanded 5 million dollars for his release, a demand rejected by the Swedish government, according to Swedish Radio, without citing a source.
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Mikel&aposs father, Michael Obi, was rescued from armed kidnappers by Nigerian police following a shootout in a remote, forest area in southeastern Nigeria on Monday.
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The man told local police his name was Timmothy Pitzen and he had just escaped two kidnappers, prompting a multistate search for suspects matching their description.
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Digin, a soft-spoken 18-year-old, says he was chained up for 42 days by his kidnappers, after escaping from an Eritrean military training camp.
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The King's daughter's husband is reportedly taking assets and making "a power grab" and the kidnappers are very interested in the potential Waystar-Royco/Edward deal.
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Duterte has previously publicly admitted to shooting dead three alleged kidnappers in 1988, according to multiple reports, based on a December interview with radio station DZMM.
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Amid fears the incident could deter tourists from visiting the East African country, U.S. President Donald Trump called on Twitter for the kidnappers to be found.
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Sacha got Spencer to yell out the n-word repeatedly, use racist Asian stereotypes ... and drop trou (and undies) to fend off would-be terrorist kidnappers.
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Details surrounding the kidnapping are reportedly still under investigation, however Almageur said that the kidnappers were involved with a "criminal group," which he refused to identify.
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The assault underlines how difficult it has become for aid groups, which have faced heavy pressure from armed groups and kidnappers, to keep operating in Afghanistan.
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In December, kidnappers in Ukraine received a ransom worth more than $1 million in bitcoins for releasing their victim - an employee of a British cryptocurrency exchange.
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After buying him some ice cream, the kidnappers had shot the six-year-old shortly after his abduction, according to the FBI's account of the case.
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The kidnappers kept moving the nine-year-old around the forest to avoid detection, and they even shared newspaper articles about the abduction with their victim.
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The kidnappers are "nothing other than the secessionists," army spokesman Didier Badjeck said, referring to Anglophone separatist fighters calling for independence from Cameroon's largely Francophone government.
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Kopko's family agreed to pay the Bitcoin equivalent of $950,800 in ransom after his kidnappers made several calls threatening to kill him, according to the statement.
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The minister said investigations were underway to identify the kidnappers, noting that networks affiliated with al Qaeda and ISIS are known to operate in the area.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Kidnappers in Lebanon have released a Saudi Arabian man whose abduction was announced by Riyadh last week, Lebanon's National News Agency reported on Wednesday.
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That's what motivated us to try and connect with our captors, connect with the kidnappers, and get through the prison time and that sort of thing.
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Ugandan security forces said on Wednesday that they were searching Queen Elizabeth National Park, the site of the abduction, for the two victims and their kidnappers.
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The country's minister of environment said that the kidnappers had freed Mr. Dewji by dumping him in a field in the early hours of Saturday morning.
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The kidnappers made the group of 46 girls and 32 boys trek through bushes and changed their hideout several times until they were released, Majum said.
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Halimi was targeted because his kidnappers believed that because he was Jewish, he was therefore wealthy and his family could afford to pay a hefty ransom.
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A host of edited videos and messages, distributed on the popular messaging app WhatsApp, warned villages in India about gangs of purported kidnappers on the prowl.
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In addition, ransomware payments are made via hard-to-trace digital currencies such as bitcoins, and many digital kidnappers are protected by friendly Eastern European governments.
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Fearing kidnappers, the province guarded the compound heavily in the 1930s, and its security fence is still there, though the barbed wire on top is gone.
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Kidnappers take different approaches in different parts of the country, says Stephanie Leutert, director of the Mexico Security Initiative at the University of Texas at Austin.
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All of which means that many kidnappers feel, rightly, that the odds of police having the skill or inclination to come after them are pretty low.
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According to a letter obtained by Italian police after Ayling's release, she was set free because her kidnappers realized she had a young child at home.
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Almaguer said the suspected gang members were accompanied by nine women who were left behind, adding that the kidnappers had yet to make any contact with authorities.
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"That information might fall into the hands of kidnappers... is the perfect excuse," said Nicholas Shaxson of Tax Justice Network, an organization that lobbies on tax havens.
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That's because the rest -- about 250 -- have either died, been married off, or become radicalized and don't want to leave their Boko Haram kidnappers, the sources said.
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"He was only given a few lines to deliver, and it was simply echoing the demands of the kidnappers - for the troops to withdraw," said Dela Pena.
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While Capone was held, McCrackin was allegedly driven around to several banks in order to give her alleged kidnappers at least $10,000 for her fellow actor's release.
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Lazaro Mambosasa, Dar es Salaam's police commander, told Reuters that Dewji was abandoned by his kidnappers in the city's Gymkhana area at 2:30 am local time.
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In less than a year, Salgado transformed a group of untrained citizens into an armed force that was able to track down and arrest kidnappers and murderers.
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Others, such as 75 Nigerians at Igbo Landing off the Georgia coast took over their slave ship, drowning their kidnappers and ultimately themselves, choosing death over enslavement.
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"When we handed the children to their parents this evening, we learned two students are still with the kidnappers, and the principal and one teacher," Forba said.
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"That information might fall into the hands of kidnappers... is the perfect excuse," said Nicholas Shaxson of Tax Justice Network, an organisation that lobbies on tax havens.
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The sister of the Brazilian star Hulk was held for 24 hours in 2012, and kidnappers took the brother of Wilson Palacios, a Honduran midfielder, in 2007.
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The 23 bags were still sitting in an Iraqi bank vault, but it seemed that the Qataris had somehow found another way to satisfy the kidnappers' demands.
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The Cape Kidnappers golf course, designed by legendary golf architect Tom Doak, features narrow fairways perched 460 feet above the Pacific Ocean in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.
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A significant hurdle to recovery for the California siblings and children in analogous situations, said psychologists, is that their captors were not stranger-kidnappers but their parents.
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The money was raised privately, but the White House, FBI, and State Department knew about the negotiations with the kidnappers and helped arrange and deliver the funds.
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None of the guns were produced for US investigators, and it is still not known who fired the "phantom" pistol rounds, or even who the kidnappers were.
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Photograph by James Hughes / NY Daily News Archive / Getty Most of the kidnappers ended up taking plea deals; one insisted on a trial and was found guilty.
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We're in Santa Cruz now, where vans — classic Westphalias, slick Sprinters, retro Volkswagon microbuses, and decaying white cargo vans preferred by painters and kidnappers — line public streets.
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When her mother tried to intervene and protect her daughter, the kidnappers also pushed her to the ground in the process, in a wild haze of events.
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His claim to have killed "about three people" probably refers to a 1988 hostage raid in which he says he fired an M-16 at three kidnappers.
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Reports dogged him for the rest of his life that the kidnapping was a hoax, but the FBI says it was real -- and the kidnappers were convicted.
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Sharonville police subsequently interviewed the boy, who identified himself as Timmothy Pitzen He said he had just escaped from two kidnappers who'd been holding him for seven years.
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As she got out of the car, one of the kidnappers gave her a gift: a memory card with recorded phone conversations of her husband discussing the murder.
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"I want people to see us as more than some Boko-Haram, terrorists, 419, kidnappers, there's more to it, we are people with hopes and dreams," he continued.
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She says it's because kidnappers could grab her off the porch, but she seems a bit more worried about the part where Gypsy spoke to Lacey about dating.
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The mother-in-law of Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has been freed from her kidnappers -- UNHARMED -- and without having to pay the $36 million ransom ... cops say.
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The woman, whom Bishop identified as Kerry Jane Wilson in a Monday statement, was taken by armed kidnappers at dawn from her home in Jalalabad in late April.
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Many of the rest were in Nigeria, where the schoolgirl-kidnappers of Boko Haram and its odious offshoot, Islamic State West Africa Province, shoot villagers and behead nurses.
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KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Kidnappers have abducted two Americans and two Canadians in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna, killing two police officers, a police spokesman said on Wednesday.
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"The two police escorts attached to them engaged the kidnappers in a fierce gun battle, which resulted in the unfortunate death of the two police officers," Aliyu said.
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GAUHATI, India – Fueled by rumors of child kidnappers and spread on social media, Indian mobs have killed well over a dozen people in brutal attacks since early May.
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" She also hates the fact Toobin's book "cites one of my kidnappers as its main source, romanticizes my rape and torture and calls my abduction a 'rollicking adventure'.
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"The family hopes the kidnappers would not hurt her and know she is really well loved by family and friends," her father told CNN through a translator Thursday.
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In less than a year, Salgado transformed a group of untrained local citizens into an armed force that was able to track down and arrest kidnappers and murderers.
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Read more: 11 times kidnappers targeted millionaires and high-profile executives around the globeThe abduction of rich and prominent heirs often generates a considerable amount of media scrutiny.
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The shooting occurred as Federal Bureau of Investigation agents prepared to enter a home where kidnappers were holding the 47-year-old victim, Ulises Valladares, captive and bound.
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The American consul sent a Nigerian-American F.B.I. agent, a kidnapping expert, to her mother's house; he told her mother what to say when the kidnappers called back.
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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Nigeria football captain John Obi Mikel has expressed his gratitude to the Nigeria Police Force following the rescue of his father from kidnappers on Monday.
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It works with children and youths in Ethiopia who risk becoming victims of human traffickers or kidnappers after fleeing violence or forced conscription in Eritrea or South Sudan.
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Police say that Rini told authorities in Newport, Kentucky, that he escaped kidnappers in Ohio and that he had gone missing eight years ago following his mother's suicide.
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Brolin's job is to protect movie stars from the vagaries of public scandal; to that end, he dashes around Hollywood soundstages chasing kidnappers and fending off gossip columnists.
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Eduardo Almaguer, the Jalisco State prosecutor, said at a news conference that the preliminary investigation indicated that both the kidnappers and their victims were members of criminal organizations.
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Working through Hezbollah also allowed Iran to maintain some control over the ransom negotiations, which might otherwise have ended in a fast cash payment for the Iraqi kidnappers.
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Her kidnappers seem to be connected with the D.G.S.E., the French equivalent of the C.I.A. But who they are and what they want from her remain oddly opaque.
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The kidnappers were followed to their car by the Aquarium's general manager, Jen Spellman, who noticed water leaking from the stroller, Aquarium owner Ammon Covino told USA Today.
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Kidnappers historically sought an economic reward through ransom, Stone said, but in the past half century more have sought to satisfy their own desires, typically seeking sex slaves.
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I'll never forget the sight of my kidnappers, dressed all in black and wearing ski masks, waiting for me in a white cell in the Bangkok detention site.
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"One of the kidnappers told me that the kidneys of my [child] were good for removal," David said, sobbing so hard he could barely get the words out.
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However, it seems quite possible that at some point, the Democrats may conclude that they are better off calling President Trump's bluff and refusing to negotiate with kidnappers.
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The general described the kidnappers as Shiite militiamen, a group of Islamist hardliners also suspected in the massacre of nearly 30 women at a Baghdad brothel in July 2014.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - A Shi'ite Muslim judge abducted in eastern Saudi Arabia a year ago has been killed by his kidnappers, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported on Monday.
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That would be quite a feat indeed, considering that Spacey plays an important supporting role as the oil tycoon who negotiates with kidnappers demanding a ransom for his grandson.
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The hashtag incorrectly implied that the kidnappers are connected to Black Lives Matter, and the idea was pushed by prominent Twitter users such as Infowars editor Paul Joseph Watson.
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But they escaped by stacking mattresses the kidnappers had left, moving a metal plate and two industrial batteries to seal the roof and digging through 3 feet of dirt.
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Outlander officially left Scotland last week, as Claire and Jamie took to the high seas in an effort to find Young Ian, whose kidnappers were reportedly bound for Jamaica.
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It's not clear what prompted his kidnappers to carry out their threats, but a video released by the group shows Ridsdel's captors brutally beheaded him when the deadline passed.
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"The woman was taken by one of the kidnappers to the British consulate," Milan police officer Lorenzo Bucossi told reporters about capturing Herba, according to a Sky News translation.
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Army spokesman General Asim Bajwa said three "terrorists" were killed during the rescue, adding that the kidnappers belonged to a splinter faction of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
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Vincent Cochetel, who was held captive in Chechnya in 1998, said countries must bring kidnappers to justice to stem a steep increase in attacks, which are undermining aid operations.
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The young Paul Getty (Charlie Plummer, no relation to Christopher) is idling in Rome when he's suddenly dragged into a van, with the kidnappers demanding $17 million in ransom.
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Mr. Ridsdel appeared last month in a video posted on a Facebook page associated with Abu Sayyaf, in which he pleaded with Mr. Trudeau to meet the kidnappers' demands.
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"Victims released also said while the kidnappers were on their tugboat for nearly 30 minutes, no violence took place," he told reporters at a press conference in Lahad Datu.
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It was not clear how the United States found out about the militant's arrest, but an American drone had been monitoring the kidnappers as they moved deeper into Pakistan.
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"The two police escorts attached to them engaged the kidnappers in a fierce gun battle, which resulted in the unfortunate death of the two police officers," Mr. Aliyu said.
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Seeking to capitalize on the publicity, June's parents hoped to send the girl on a vaudeville tour to raise $1,500 in reward money for the arrest of the kidnappers.
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Now, in "Girl," she has left Ireland entirely and gone to the camp where Maryam and her schoolmates are being held captive, brutalized and enslaved by their jihadi kidnappers.
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Since then, over 1393,000 asylum seekers have been sent back to Mexico, where they're under threat from drug cartels and kidnappers and are dependent on volunteers for basic supplies.
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At last, Fifty succeeds (he plays this frustrated triumph beautifully), and the demand lands on the front page: The kidnappers must have $17 million or Paul will be killed.
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But in other cases, like the killing of Professor Panjshiri, families are left wondering whether their loved ones were killed by insurgents, thieves, kidnappers or someone else — and why.
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But the pair of Stanford computer science grads got knocked off the charts by a vicious rumor that their app helped kidnappers, which they call a purposeful smear campaign.
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However, these officers had not come to save the family but rather to sit down at the table for a leisurely breakfast and to accept money from the kidnappers.
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He later said his kidnappers had attached a weight to him aboard a boat and were about to throw him into the sea when the United States government intervened.
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YAOUNDE, March 20 (Reuters) - A Tunisian engineer was killed by his kidnappers in Anglophone Southwest Cameroon and his body was recovered in a rescue operation on Monday, Cameroon's government said.
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"Operatives acting on intelligence information swooped on the kidnappers where a gun duel ensued," police said in the statement, adding that the abductors had abandoned their victims in the forest.
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Last year, seven men in the eastern state of Jharkhand were murdered by angry villagers in two separate incidents after rumours circulated on WhatsApp warning of kidnappers in the area.
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For about a week before the men arrived, rumors circulated on the messaging system WhatsApp warning of bands of kidnappers roving the area and infiltrating villages to snatch young children.
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Williams plays the missing boy's mother Gail Getty, who frantically tries to convince her wealthy father-in-law to pay her son's ransom as the kidnappers become increasingly more violent.
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Dewji's family had offered a reward of 1 billion Tanzania shillings ($440,000) for information leading to his release, though it was not immediately clear how much the kidnappers had demanded.
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Five nomads were recently beaten to death in the rural village of Rainpada after residents watched inaccurate videos forwarded through WhatsApp about kidnappers supposedly rolling through the area, BuzzFeed reports.
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The lurking men of the playgrounds of my childhood are no longer predictable villains, the deviants and kidnappers who feature in the cautionary tales told to children around the world.
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Are they just really inept kidnappers, or is this whole thing some sort of conspiracy by the anti-clown movement to bring on the clown extinction once and for all?
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Since then, more than 1393,000 asylum seekers have been sent back to Mexico, where they're under threat from drug cartels and kidnappers and are dependent on volunteers for basic supplies.
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There were fighter planes in the air, and the kidnappers were constantly on the run, decamping at the first hint of a surveillance plane or anything suspicious, said Mr. Gustafsson.
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It is unclear whether Mr. de Baan's team can operate in northern Mali, which diplomats say remains unsafe as various factions fight for power and smugglers and kidnappers are active.
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It's still unclear why Piper is being stalked by kidnappers, but the actress who plays her might have given viewers a clue when she compared the series to Stranger Things.
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In that case, Museveni said camera footage showed policemen on duty were sleeping and failed to trace the vehicle used by the kidnappers when the victims' relatives reported the incident.
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In 2017, rumors of a band of child kidnappers made the rounds on WhatsApp, sparking an angry mob that ultimately killed four innocent men, according to the New York Times.
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WASHINGTON — For more than two years the F.B.I. and intelligence agencies have warned that encrypted communications are creating a "going dark" crisis that will keep them from tracking terrorists and kidnappers.
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Right after she's finished explaining how kidnappers tortured her son in what she says was retribution for her own environmental activism, the landline phone on Claudia Zenteno Zaldívar's kitchen wall rings.
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The children were driven about 100 miles away to a remote quarry and forced into a moving van buried six feet underground while their kidnappers asked for a $5 million ransom.
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Related: 'Chapo' Prison Break Shows Just How Weak Mexico's Government Really Is The guards then waited outside the restroom for the next 15 minutes, but the kidnappers were not actually there.
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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)A group of South African kidnappers who snatched a 13-year-old boy as he played with friends have demanded a $120,000 ransom in bitcoin cryptocurrency, police say.
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Itzel, the Mayan heroine, becomes a buccaneer herself after being captured by the fictional Captain Blood while she is on a mission to save her little brother, Dacey, from Spanish kidnappers.
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Their stories reflect the trajectory of the 52-year war, which began as political violence between liberals and conservatives, then spiraled into the hands of armed Marxists, kidnappers and drug runners.
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The kidnappers took a dozen pictures of each of the migrants who were being held, and they took notes on everyone — their full names, where they were from, their family members.
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The property is part of Robertson Lodges, a trio of hotels in New Zealand that also includes the Farm at Cape Kidnappers near Napier and Matakauri Lodge, on the South Island.
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A candidate named Michael Williams has been riding around in what he calls a "deportation bus," that he has promised to fill with "murderers, rapists, kidnappers" and send back to Mexico.
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Within hours of Mr. Naeem's murder, three more men — the brothers Vikas and Gautam Varma, and their friend Gangesh Gupta — were killed by another mob agitated by rumors of child kidnappers.
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Nearly two decades after his daughter, Elizabeth Smart, escaped the kidnappers who held her for nine months, Ed Smart is having another emotional and very public experience — coming out as gay.
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Two pages later, the two kidnappers are stopped by a New Hampshire state trooper and of course have to kill him, because "The Chain" has also been sold as a movie.
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Two pages later, the two kidnappers are stopped by a New Hampshire state trooper and of course have to kill him, because "The Chain" has also been sold as a movie.
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The kidnapping case began in March 2015 when Huskins' boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, reported to the Vallejo Police Department that kidnappers had broken into his home, kidnapped Huskins and demanded $8,500 in ransom.
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Authorities say a teen boy in Kentucky on Wednesday claimed to have just escaped from two kidnappers and identified himself as a child who went missing almost eight years ago in Illinois.
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One of the kidnappers claimed in his initial statement to police that he and his son, together with some friends, decided to abduct Ivan after watching a television show about his father.
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The film ran into controversies of its own when Michael Mammoliti, nephew to one of the kidnappers, spoke publicly alleging that J. Paul Getty was complicit in the kidnapping of his grandson.
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This endangers every American overseas by incentivizing kidnappers and encouraging hostage-takers, and since Iran's release of five US hostages in January, multiple American citizens have been thrown into Iranian jail cells.
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Kidnappers freed about 80 school children and a driver in west Cameroon on Wednesday, but kept hold of a principal and one teacher, two days after snatching them in a school raid.
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According to Mexican officials, Pulido was able to overpower one of the kidnappers and stole a gun and cellphone away from him and called emergency services as he fought the man off.
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Denied their favoured haven, the kidnappers were boxed in to the inhospitable terrain of rural Yobe State and cut off from the bases of other Boko Haram factions in the Sambisa forest.
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In 2016, several groups of local jihadist terrorists and kidnappers in the lawless jungles of the predominantly Muslim islands of Basilan and Mindanao swore an oath of allegiance to the Islamic State.
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"The case was reported by locals and we have swung into action to rescue them," he said, adding that so far there had been no ransom demand or contact from the kidnappers.
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They argue that if everyone in the world has strong cryptography, then terrorists, kidnappers and child pornographers will be able to make plans that law enforcement and national security personnel can't penetrate.
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"It is never going to be a good moment to mediate ... with kidnappers, human rights violators, and a dictatorship," Guaido told reporters at the opposition-controlled National Assembly legislature, which he heads.
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This shortsighted and, as some of the kidnappers know, potentially fatal suggestion — like it or not, Chace and Gail now know Fifty's real face and name — elicits an inspired speech from Primo.
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That has left an untold number of migrants trapped in Mexico, where they have sometimes fallen prey to kidnappers seeking ransom or been driven into the hands of drug cartels and smugglers.
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After languishing for two months, the parents and children were released into Mexico City, where the threats continued both from their former kidnappers and Barrio 18 gang members searching for the family.
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Kidnappers were demanding $393,700 for the man's release, in addition to $300 that had been paid to someone in Mexico to help bring him into the country, police said in a criminal complaint.
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Over the last two months, more than 20 people have been killed in India after rumors spread on social media that they were child kidnappers, sexual predators or engaged in other criminal activity.
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In "When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics" Milan Vaishnav of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace meticulously tracks the remarkable political success of India's accused murderers, blackmailers, thieves and kidnappers.
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Usually during the Easter season, immigrants have headed north together as a form of protection against the kidnappers, muggers and rapists who stalk the migrant trail, and to draw attention to their plight.
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That includes the killing of five people who visited a rural village but were beaten to death after being falsely accused of being child kidnappers due to the spread of rumors on WhatsApp.
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KADUNA (Reuters) - Kidnappers in Nigeria killed a British woman and a Nigerian man, and abducted three others in the northern city of Kaduna, local police and the British High Commission said on Sunday.
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Rather, he told officers he and Crouch were kidnapped from their home, and that he later fought with one of the kidnappers over control of the wheel before the SUV hit the water.
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The president of industrial conglomerate Schneider-Empain was snatched from his car in bright daylight by kidnappers in front of his home near Paris' iconic Arc de Triomphe and kept for two months.
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Elizabeth Smart has good reason to be scared of the fact one of her kidnappers is being released from prison ... because the parole board tells TMZ the convict poses a danger to society.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Bomb blasts killed a Pakistani army officer and three soldiers searching for the kidnappers of a freed U.S.-Canadian family in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan, Pakistani and U.S. officials said.
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Pesce said the kidnappers had removed Ayling's restraints in the village but threatened to kill her if she tried to run away or tell anyone she was being held there against her will.
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PARIS — A raid led by French armed forces rescued four hostages in northern Burkina Faso on Friday, as a group of kidnappers were attempting to take them to Mali, the French authorities said.
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The official told Radio Imagen that Pulido had been tied up on the second floor of a safe house but had been able to wiggle himself free when his kidnappers were not looking.
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Last week, a day before Elizabeth was due at a court hearing in El Paso, she was in the streets of Ciudad Juárez when one of her kidnappers approached her and recognized her.
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To reclaim her son, Ms. Díaz-Balart, with the help of her family and the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City, hired professional kidnappers who ambushed the boy and his guardians in a park.
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So when he was pulled from his car and held by armed kidnappers at the Hotel Kabul on February 14, 1979, the Soviets found the fate of a capable opponent in their hands.
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And yet as she tries to escape her kidnappers in "Run," the show that routinely captures the title of TV's Most Convoluted Series gets down to basics and has one of its strongest hours.
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Officials released photos Monday of what appeared to show a woman escaping from the trunk of a car and running away from her kidnappers, before being pulled back in the vehicle and driven away.
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Ana Soto, 72, was taken from her home in the town of Maracaibo on Thursday, with the alleged kidnappers making their move about 15 minutes after Diaz left the house, according to the BBC.
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But despite its reputation as the go-to fragrance of mid-eighties teenagers (and, randomly, the kidnappers in Taken), there's at least one place where Drakkar Noir is seeing a surprising resurgence: Drake's arm.
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Ali Omar Ader, 40, was found guilty of one charge of hostage-taking for his role as negotiator for the kidnappers, in a decision handed down on Wednesday in Ontario Superior Court in Ottawa.
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In December, kidnappers in Ukraine received a ransom worth more than one million in bitcoins for releasing their victim -- an employee of a British cryptocurrency exchange, according to a report from Reuters news agency.
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In a separate press conference, Jalisco Attorney General Eduardo Almaguer said there was no evidence that a single band of kidnappers was behind the phenomenon, although he did note certain similarities in the cases.
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Ill prepared for terrorism, and lacking a tactical sniper team, the German police botched an attempt to rescue the athletes, who were killed, along with one police officer and five of the eight kidnappers.
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"The amnesty would benefit those in prison for minor crimes, not murderers or kidnappers or those who have caused serious injury to another person," Lopez Obrador wrote in a preamble to the draft initiative.
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The kidnappers took Agacac and his companion Laurencio Tiro captive from a cargo ship off Basilan on Thursday, only hours after soldiers rescued two Malaysians held for about eight months on a southern island.
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The Japanese Red Army member was exchanged for 11 hostages held at the French Embassy in the Netherlands, and he and the kidnappers were put on a plane to Syria with $300,000 in ransom.
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As the war dragged on, opposition areas became just as difficult to reach as government ones; they were blocked by sieges, or journalists there were threatened by extremist kidnappers, by airstrikes or by both.
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"I don't think you have to watch too many 'Law & Order' episodes to realize kidnappers don't usually wear fluorescent green shirts," he said, adding that he felt Mr. Lewis had handled the situation well.
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He is the handpicked successor of the former president Michel Martelly, whose term was marred by a weak, corruptible judiciary and ties to human rights abusers, drug traffickers and kidnappers who avoided jail time.
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The train, which transports sugar and grains to cement and minerals, has helped legions of north-bound Central Americans flee extortionists, kidnappers, and more recently, migration agents and police who swarm highways and board buses.
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The PRI party quickly figures out the identity of Sofia's kidnappers, and proceeds to threaten Felix: Either Felix can turn in Rafa, or PRI is going going to pick apart his empire until it crumbles.
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While the documents released do show that New York police have used the StingRay to locate suspected murderers, rapists, and kidnappers, a litany of other charges have apparently merited the use of StingRays as well.
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The organization's staff had earlier told Reuters that the kidnappers snatched their colleague from inside their compound in Mogadishu and took her out through a back door, avoiding security guards stationed at the main entrance.
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The kidnappers, who abducted the six Nigerians and Turkish staff member late on Friday, have not made contact with police or school authorities and no arrest has been made, Ogun police spokesman Abimbola Oyeyemi said.
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DAR ES SALAAM/NAIROBI (Reuters) - Africa's youngest billionaire, snatched a week ago off the street outside a luxury hotel in Tanzania, has returned home unharmed after being released by his kidnappers, police said on Saturday.
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Witnesses who spoke with the group said Esqueda asked his kidnappers for their identity when they broke into the home where he was asleep with his wife, and they responded that they were police officers.
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"It's become like America, a land of opportunity — for kidnappers," said Mohanned el Mahjoub, a chatty 30-year-old militia commander, as we sped through Tripoli one night in his hulking four-wheel-drive Jeep.
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A rumor spread through social media about child kidnappers arriving in various parts of India has led to 33 deaths in 203 incidents of mob violence since 2017, according to IndiaSpend, a data journalism website.
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The mall felt so utterly normal that I didn't freak out when Sandy ran off and got lost for 10 minutes — this was no longer the rough-and-tumble city where you'd worry about kidnappers.
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"The policy on no negotiations with kidnappers includes no payment of ransom," Padilla told Reuters, dismissing the one-month deadline given by the militants as a ploy to relieve the military pressure they are facing.
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The report also stated that the kidnappers threatened to kill the two remaining health workers and kidnapped schoolgirl Leah Sharibu, who remains in Boko Haram camp because she reportedly refused to denounce her Christian faith.
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Brian Michael Rini, 23, of Medina, Ohio, said Wednesday he was the missing child from Aurora, Illinois, and described how he fled from his alleged kidnappers and ran across a bridge into Kentucky, authorities said.
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The two men had been held by the kidnappers for nearly a week after being abducted on a road while traveling from the central city of Jos to a funeral in the southeastern state of Enugu.
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IN A sweaty restaurant in Lagos, Ajayi Oluwatosin David, a member of a government-affiliated paramilitary group, displays a picture on his cell phone of three alleged kidnappers lying naked before the feet of a crowd.
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The present-tense moments are the most gripping, naturally — we know that Jesse got away from his neo-Nazi kidnappers, but there's no promise he'll evade jail now that he's on the run from the cops.
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The movie — which is based on the story of Getty's refusal to cooperate with the extortion demands of a group of kidnappers who mutilated his grandson in the 1970s — was set to be released on Dec.
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Essentially, both the kidnappers and the Gettys wait around for their opponents to crack, so the film doesn't pick up speed (despite some action set pieces and confrontations which have obviously been invented by the screenwriter).
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KAMPALA (Reuters) - An American tourist and her guide who were abducted in Uganda last week were released after a "negotiated settlement" was reached with the kidnappers, the firm that organized her safari told Reuters on Monday.
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The call took place after she'd been tied up and beaten for three days straight, which Stewart believes was the result of her yelling at one of the kidnappers and telling him he was playing games.
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Around that time, a spokesman for the Philippine army told journalists in October that authorities had seen the video released that month but that he couldn't divulge operational details or shed light on the kidnappers' identity.
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The Geneva-based ICRC, which often works behind the scenes for humanitarian goals in war zones, identified the kidnappers as members of ISWA - Islamic State's offshoot in West Africa, after previously declining to name the group.
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For more than a decade, American forces have also trained and advised Philippine soldiers hunting the Abu Sayyaf, a gang of rebel kidnappers operating in the southern islands that recently swore allegiance to the Islamic State.
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In the twisty diabolical mystery, Cliff Robertson plays a wealthy New Orleans businessman devoured by guilt after the deaths of his wife, Elizabeth (Geneviève Bujold), and their daughter in a bungled car chase with their kidnappers.
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The boy's mother, with the help of her family and the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City, found a team of professional kidnappers, who ambushed the boy and his guardians in a park and carried him off.
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John Obi Mikel, the captain of Nigeria's World Cup soccer team, played in his team's final, crucial match against Argentina last week hours after finding out kidnappers were holding his father hostage, he revealed on Tuesday.
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Shortly after she disappeared, anonymous calls, presumably by the kidnappers, said the girl would be freed upon the release of Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Matthew Schrier, an American photojournalist who was captured by Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, is suing a Qatari bank for allegedly funding the activity of his kidnappers.
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Police said the teen described his kidnappers as two white men of "bodybuilder type build, one with a spiderweb tattoo on his neck and the other with a snake tattoo on his arms," the report said.
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As the story shifts from farmhouse to manor, from the kidnappers to Getty Sr. (each side armed, impatient, brutal), a parallelism develops and it becomes clear that he took his family hostage long before the kidnapping.
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If the Bakers (spoilers!) weren't always evil kidnappers, what kind of sane, well-adjusted clan decides that they're going to lock their house with an incredibly elaborate three-part key shaped like the guardian of the underworld?
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The train, which transports everything from sugar and grains to cement and minerals, has helped legions of north-bound Central Americans flee extortionists, kidnappers, and more recently, migration agents and police who swarm highways and board buses.
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According to the Philippine News Agency, the woman was able to identify 14 of her alleged kidnappers, including three men accused of being ringleaders -- Malaysians Ng Yu Meng and Goh Kok Keong and Chinese national Zhang Fuxing.
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Pleading for victims There have been well-documented cases of kidnappers and killers helping in the search for their own victims, attending rallies held for them, or making high-profile appeals for the missing person's safe return.
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The embassies of the foreign captives have declined to comment on the demands being made by the kidnappers, although in November the group released a video demanding one billion pesos, or about $21 million, for each hostage.
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"The precise and determined actions of French soldiers allowed us to take out the kidnappers while protecting the lives of the hostages," France's army chief Francois Lecointre told a news conference, describing the militant group as "terrorists".
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In real life, Little Paul's kidnappers left him on a highway in the pouring rain, a bedraggled teenager in strange clothes and a bandaged head, and he hitchhiked for hours before anyone stopped to pick him up.
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Ms. Briggs played an indirect role in easing a strict United States government ban on contact with kidnappers, a change made a few years ago by President Barack Obama after the Islamic State had beheaded American captives.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Kidnappers in Ukraine have released an employee at a United Kingdom-registered cryptocurrency exchange after getting more than $1 million in bitcoins as ransom, an adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister told Reuters on Friday.
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At one point in the movie, Getty Sr. does pull out his wallet, buying a masterpiece while Paul continues to languish with his kidnappers, an ordeal that grows more frightening and byzantine as the clock winds down.
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That too had the cars, the pretty girls, the shop-window tailoring (tweed jacket and black polo-neck), the cool amusement and the villains, though those were racketeers and kidnappers rather than would-be rulers of the world.
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Equally mystifying was the government's claim that the children's release had been secured with just one condition from their abductors — that the kidnappers could return the hostages to the town themselves without being captured or coming under fire.
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The implication that the kidnappers hadn't known they were abducting Muslims was puzzling, not least because the girls' release later seemed to hinge on that fact, but Maisamari was too busy scanning the arrivals to think it through.
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HYDERABAD, India – Police say mobs of terrified villagers have killed at least three people and attacked several others in southern India after social media messages warned that gangs of kidnappers were roaming the region in search of children.
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Jeffrey Epstein had a foreign passport that was linked to an address in Saudi Arabia in order to protect him from "potential kidnappers, hijackers, or terrorists," his lawyers wrote in a letter submitted to the court on Tuesday.
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MEXICO CITY — The abduction was notable for how and where it took place — during a birthday party at a restaurant in the Mexican Pacific Coast resort of Puerto Vallarta — and because the kidnappers and the victims are criminals.
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Egyptian officials first blamed Regeni's death on a car crash, and later said he'd been brutalized by a gang of kidnappers — all whom Egypt's government said were killed by Egyptian security forces in a shootout in late March.
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Shortly after Emanuela vanished, Vatican officials received an anonymous call from ostensible kidnappers who promised to free her upon the release of Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
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While the kidnappers' identity or motive is not clear, the incident has revived widespread fears about ethnic violence ahead of this year's election and intensified pressure on Nobel Peace Laureate Abiy, who comes from the Oromo ethnic group.
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At the time of the abductions, the local governor described a sophisticated, militarylike operation in which the kidnappers arrived in dozens of S.U.V.s with mounted machine guns and stormed a cluster of tents set up by the Qataris.
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She wrote that after being abducted as she was leaving a dinner at a Madrid country-club dinner with high-ranking Nazis in 1944, she shot one of the kidnappers, who turned out to be a double agent.
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Tamaulipas state Attorney General Ismael Quintanilla said in a news conference that a bungle by the kidnappers led to the speedy rescue of Pulido, a 2887-year-old forward for the Greek club Olympiacos and a national club veteran.
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According to the FBI's account of the case, the trio of kidnappers — Barry Keenan, Joe Amsler, and John Irwin — called up Frank Sinatra Sr. The singer offered to pay $1 million, but the abductors demanded a $240,000 ransom instead.
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The United States has maintained it follows a policy of no concessions to kidnappers although the tour firm that arranged the safari told Reuters the captives were released after a "negotiated settlement" with the assistance of the US government.
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The motive for the kidnapping was not clear, but the Afghan government asked Pakistani authorities "to use all their tools and possibilities to identify the group of kidnappers and take action to free Wahidi immediately", the foreign ministry said.
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Qatari officials paid at least $275 million to get back hostages being held by Iraqi kidnappers, and an additional $150 million to "intermediaries," which the U.S. has designated as sponsors of international terrorism, the Washington Post's Joby Warrick reports.
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However, authorities haven't always shown an active interest in tracking down stolen cryptocurrency, and the alleged kidnappers could simply lay low until the right opportunity to exchange the stolen coins for clean crypto or something else of equivalent value emerges.
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With football clubs analogous to kidnappers in this case, it's hard not to picture prospective signings being whisked off by a gang of board members in balaclavas, then imprisoned in some sort of makeshift dungeon until they agree personal terms.
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After the screenshots on were posted to Twitter, Karnatz still went along with the joke but, after she told Matthew that the kidnappers were keeping her brother at the address 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney, Australia, he realized he was being pranked.
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Murad, a Yazidi woman who says she prayed for death while being repeatedly raped by her kidnappers, called on world leaders Monday to do more to bring the Islamic State to justice for genocide and other crimes, the AP reports.
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Most have been linked to the invasion of the area by traffickers, hitmen, kidnappers, and other criminals associated with the infamous Zetas cartel as they expanded their presence in the Gulf coast state that borders the frontier state of Tamaulipas.
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The head of the Iraqi Journalistic Freedoms Observatory, Ziyad al-Ajili, said on Wednesday the kidnappers had returned the car, telephone, laptop and gold jewelry they took when they broke into her home and that she drove back overnight around midnight.
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However, according to Li Ching-yu, the letter was a copy that she could not verify was from her husband and was delivered via unofficial channels by an individual who said the people holding her husband should be seen as "kidnappers".
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Based on a true story, All the Money in the World details the harrowing 1973 kidnapping of J. Paul Getty's 16-year-old grandson, J. Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer, no relation), and Getty's refusal to comply with the kidnappers' demands.
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The model, who identified herself as Chloe Ayling, was allegedly held captive for six days, handcuffed to furniture while her kidnappers demanded her agent pay a ransom of $300,000 to prevent the online auction, Italian police said in a statement.
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Before he was fired last week, James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, often complained that the government was "going dark," and that intelligence agencies and local police needed a way to crack the encrypted mobile conversations of terrorists or kidnappers.
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He was held for ransom in Mexico after defecting from Cuba and his relatives in Florida were surveilled by his kidnappers throughout the ordeal—then he had to cope with the legal fallout of the kidnapping while playing for the Rangers.
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Her husband loaded his car full of stereo equipment, drove off with the young man and returned the next day, telling her a "rambling" story in which he was "abducted" but able to "escape" after using "psychology" on his kidnappers.
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"Black Mirror" was first concerned about media, in episodes like "The National Anthem" (in which kidnappers coerce the British prime minister into having sex with a pig on live TV) and "The Waldo Moment" (a crude cartoon character runs for office).
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They travel in large groups — the current is one of the largest at about 1,200 participants — in part for protection against the kidnappers, muggers and rapists that stalk the migrant trail, but also to draw more attention to their plight.
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But then Gail confirms that she initially misidentified Angelo's half-charred corpse as her son's (the kidnappers had intentionally placed Paul's Converse sneakers onto Angelo's feet as a twisted negotiating tactic), and news reaches Sutton Place: Little Paul is still alive.
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In a series of phone conversations, and in several voice messages reviewed by The New York Times, the wife, a woman named Cindy who works at a bakery in Elizabeth, N.J., promised to get the $21,203 the kidnappers were demanding.
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Before he was fired last week, James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, often complained that the government was "going dark," and that intelligence agencies and local police departments needed a way to crack the encrypted mobile conversations of terrorists or kidnappers.
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Officials have offered little public explanation for the proposals, beyond a desire to curb the kind of false rumors about child kidnappers that spread on WhatsApp a year ago and that incited angry mobs to kill two dozen innocent people.
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In order to distract would-be kidnappers, Spencer shouted "n-----" multiple times, before Cohen's character told him that terrorists were so afraid of gay people that they believed they could be turned gay if they were touched with a bare butt.
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In June, rumors about child kidnappers shared on the service inspired a mob of hundreds to lynch a 29-year-old man and his friend who were passing through a village in Karbi Anglong, a district in the eastern part of the country.
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Their kidnappers, she said, were an elderly man with a graying beard who the girls nicknamed "Baba" — meaning uncle — and a younger, light-skinned man who looked like the Fulani herders whose cows often grazed just beyond her family's mud-walled home.
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Sources say that the army, working with intelligence agencies using drones and satellite imagery provided by Western governments, blocked the routes the kidnappers were trying to use to escape across the border into Chad and their strongholds on islands in Lake Chad.
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One of the explanations for the incident, as floated by the father of one of the kidnappers, was that the group had accidentally drunk a type of psychedelic tea that caused a trip so intense they stripped naked and committed a kidnapping.
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Maute members who were captured said the Davao attack was ordered by Isnilon Hapilon of Abu Sayyaf, a group that has fought since the 1990s for an independent Islamic province but is as well known as a vicious gang of criminals and kidnappers.
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A brother of one of the hostages said the kidnappers freed the workers, some into the custody of local contractors who paid money on their behalf, while the rest signed undertakings to stay in Libya and work to settle the gunmen's demands.
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Those speech patterns, however, prove something of a distraction initially, with the performance growing stronger as she displays her resourcefulness and grit while fighting battles on two fronts -- one against the kidnappers, another versus her father-in-law and his legal henchmen.
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Read more: Kidnappers Around the World Want Their Ransoms Paid in Bitcoin On July 20, whoever was behind WannaCry 1.0 cashed out all the bitcoin they accumulated, and converted it to the more anonymous and harder to track cryptocurrency Monero, according to researchers.
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Prosecutors described how Mr. Felix, a journeyman carpenter who had once done work for Mr. Stark, and "a team of kidnappers" — many from his own family — had taken part in a plot to abduct Mr. Stark and shake him down for money.
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The shooting also occurred days after a raid led by French armed forces rescued four hostages in northern Burkina Faso — including two Frenchmen, an American and a South Korean — as the kidnappers were attempting to take them to Mali, the French authorities said.
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It appears from the Facebook exchanges — some of which are detailed in a criminal complaint and others in Mr. Moore's book — that the journalist developed a kind of affinity for Mr. Tahlil, who, in turn, provided Mr. Moore with information about his kidnappers.
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He has just learned that his son's kidnappers have not killed little Paul after all, and it prompts him down memory lane, in which he revisits a brief period when his own life and his family's future seemed full of promise — and money.
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A pair of hairy kidnappers discuss the origins of the beans in a cup of coffee ("It's tart, but it has an earthy finish — I'm going with Ethiopian") in the first episode of this new crime drama, which is set in Portland, Ore.
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The rapper testified that he didn't ID his kidnappers to police or the media after the incident, but he did meet up with his former manager, Shotti, and Mel Murda afterward at his house and told them Harv and Nuke were the perps.
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In a speech announcing his candidacy, he rambled on for more than an hour, offering an account of personally killing kidnappers and setting their car on fire, pledging to kill "up to a hundred thousand criminals" when elected, and boasting of his womanizing.
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Kidnappers freed on Monday the last of 80-odd children taken hostage last week in a raid on a school in the city of Bamenda - a center of the country's troubled English-speaking region where separatists are fighting to form a breakaway republic.
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Of course, some fans still prefer the rookie Benson who seemed to never shy away from dangerous situations—the one who went undercover in prison, infiltrated a dangerous environmental group, and once even pretended to be gunned down by a group of kidnappers.
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When his kidnappers sent a ransom letter demanding $28.5 million for Paul's safe return, some family members believed it was a stunt, as the rebellious teen had sometimes joked about staging his own kidnapping as a means of getting money from his stingy grandfather.
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Kaspersky's family withdrew their civil claim, in which they'd sought 22015 million rubles (about $22012 million) in damages from Ustimchuk, instead only receiving an apology and 22016,22017 rubles (about $83) as compensation for a mobile phone and wallet the kidnappers had taken from Ivan.
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The victim was then reportedly moved about 55 miles east along the border and kept in a safe house near the city of Matamoros, located just across the border from the Texan city of Brownsville, while his kidnappers demanded a ransom from his family.
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"Some suspected kidnappers armed with dangerous weapons gained entry into a recreational resort called Kajuru Castle in Kajuru local government area shooting sporadically and in the process shot dead two persons, including an expatriate lady, and took away three others," Kaduna state police spokesman said.
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In Amar's section, we witness a world overwhelmed by the madness of war, which causes the sudden disappearance of a person who had been a pillar for his family, while his kidnappers rule civilization and immigration officials ask him circular questions that have no answer.
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He makes Patricia Hearst's father, Randy Hearst, sympathetic, describing how he transformed from "an overfed plutocrat whose cosseted existence could scarcely differ more" from the kidnappers into someone who listened closely to anyone who might help find his daughter, including inmates at nearby Vacaville prison.
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Myron may be the one with the hero complex and Win the one with the killer instincts ("I am good with a straight razor"), but when Patrick Moore disappeared 10 years earlier, the kidnappers also took Win's 6-year-old cousin — and family is family.
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"It's best to have transportation booked in advance from a trustworthy car service company because in some areas of the world, such as Mexico, it's not uncommon for kidnappers to pose as drivers and pick up unsuspecting women at the airport," Mr. Boles said.
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Read the article in Times Machine May 193, 1934 The family sends a note to the kidnappers with four questions for June Robles to answer so that they can know she is still alive: What do you do with your bunnies in the morning?
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There are grotesque parodies of family life (a pair of kidnappers treat their prisoners with the loving pride of parents), parodies of work (a woman's job requires her to lie facedown on a table and have her leg hair ritually plucked away by six beauticians).
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More recently, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has demanded that WhatsApp create a way to track and stop mass messages, such as a series of false items about child kidnappers that led to the murder of two dozen innocent people by angry mobs.
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The all-white envoy delivers the cash to the kidnappers as the snow falls gently upon them — that Little Paul isn't there to complete the exchange violates the terms of the original agreement, but Chace and Gail decide they have little choice but to agree.
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"It's pretty clear that the Department of Homeland Security is essentially delivering asylum seekers and migrants into the hands of kidnappers, and people who are attacking the refugees and migrants when they return," said Eleanor Acer, senior director for refugee protection at Human Rights First.
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The judge in the case found that Ethéart had made several calls to the kidnappers, and noted apparent financial irregularities: Ethéart, an employee of the Interior Ministry with a salary of about fifteen hundred dollars a month, had six cars and seven bank accounts.
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Dogs are a looming, watchful presence throughout Adam's unblinking depiction of a crime-besieged Trinidadian landscape where robbers and kidnappers target the poor and well-off alike and even those who can invest in security systems must be wary of the men who install them.
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A month after iOS8's release, James Comey, the director of the F.B.I., told an audience at the Brookings Institution that Apple had gone "too far" with the expanded encryption, arguing that the operating system effectively sealed off any chance of tracking kidnappers, terrorists and criminals.
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Jorge Rodríguez, a spokesperson for the Iztapalapa government, said in many of those cases, the kidnappers and the city's drivers — who earn as little as $160 a month — were in cahoots, splitting the profits from the sale of what should have been free water for desperate families.
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" Kerry also said, "Daesh [Islamic State] is in fact nothing more than a mixture of killers, of kidnappers, of criminals, of thugs ..." Then-President George W. Bush on al Qaeda: "If we let down our guard against this group of thugs, they will hurt us again.
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Starting last spring, the platform began being linked to incidents of mob killings, most of which fit a similar pattern: People deemed to be "outsiders" were targeted by large mobs accusing them of being child kidnappers after rumors to be on the lookout circulated on WhatsApp.
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