Three dead, three safe after 36-hour Trenton hostage drama
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Three children are safe after a 36-hour standoff with an armed man in Trenton, New Jersey ended early Sunday, police said.
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Trenton hostage situation passes 24 hours
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A hostage situation in the New Jersey capital of Trenton passed its 24th hour on Saturday as police worked to coax out an unidentified armed man who has taken “multiple” hostages amid reports of fatalities.
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Gunman dead after holding four firefighters hostage in suburban Atlanta
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A gunman who was holding four firefighters hostage outside of Atlanta was killed during a tactical operation, police said Wednesday.
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Details emerge of mock bunker in Alabama hostage’s rescue
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As residents of Midland City, Ala., Tuesday celebrated the freeing of a 5-year-old Alabama boy held hostage for nearly a week, details emerged about the daring operation that freed him.
A law enforcement source close to the investigation confirmed to NBC News on Tuesday that federal agents practiced their intricate rescue plans not far from where the kidnapper, 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes, held the little boy.
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‘Greatest birthday’ for boy rescued from Alabama bunker by FBI
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An Alabama boy is set for the “greatest” birthday of his life after being freed from a week’s captivity in an underground bunker, a pastor said Tuesday.
The boy, snatched from a school bus in a fatal shooting, was rescued after a daring raid by FBI agents that left his kidnapper, Jimmy Lee Dykes, dead.
The 5-year-old, who is recovering in hospital, turns 6 on Wednesday.
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Boy held hostage in bunker after being snatched from school bus
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An Alabama man boarded a school bus, shot and killed the driver, took a boy hostage and was holding the child early Wednesday in an underground bunker, authorities and witnesses said.
Witnesses told WSFA, the NBC station in Montgomery, Ala., that the man was talking to authorities through a PVC pipe. The station reported that the child, age 5 or 6, was not hurt but that authorities were calling the situation delicate.
Some hostages who escaped Islamist militants at Algeria gas plant due in London
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Western hostages being held by Islamist militants at a gas plant in Algeria were feared to have been killed during a raid by Algerian forces Thursday. At least some hostages, however, reportedly escaped.
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14 hostages freed from California mall; one assaulted, one stabbed, police say
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One person was sexually assaulted and another was stabbed in the neck during a hostage situation at a Southern California shopping center that ended early Friday after Los Angeles Police Department SWAT members entered a Nordstrom Rack and escorted at least 14 people from the building.
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Police: 4 dead, including gunman, in Aurora, Colo., hostage situation
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Three people were found dead inside a home in Aurora, Colo., after a gunman took them hostage early Saturday morning, police told NBC affiliate KUSA. The gunman was also shot and killed by police after hours of failed negotiation attempts.
Another person who had been inside the house was able to escape and alert authorities, KUSA reported.
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Police respond to hostage situation in downtown Pittsburgh
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Updated at 10:56 a.m.: Emergency crews, including a police SWAT team and special weapons and tactics officers, have responded to an apparent hostage situation at Three Gateway Center in downtown Pittsburgh, according to local reports.
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