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| x Eloá Pimentel hostage crisis |
Eloá Pimentel hostage crisis refers to the kidnapping, hostage situation and murder of Brazilian 15-year-old girl Eloá Cristina Pimentel, which was accompanied by the shooting of her friend Nayara Silva, both committed by Eloá's ex-boyfriend...
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| x Ennepetal hostage taking |
On April 12, 2005, at around 1 p.m. local time, a 50 year-old Iranian national seized a regular bus with a number of school children in the town of Ennepetal, Germany in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The kidnapper entered the bus at a bus...
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| x Supreme Court of Justice hostage crisis |
The Supreme Court of Justice Hostage Crisis was a 1993 attack in which five gunmen from a group calling itself the "Death Commando" group took over the Costa Rican Supreme Court in San José on April 26 and held 19 supreme court judges (magistrates)...
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| x Japan Airlines Flight 472 |
Japan Airlines Flight 472 was an aircraft hijacking carried out by the Japanese Red Army (JRA) on September 28, 1977.
The Douglas DC-8, en route from Paris to Haneda Airport in Tokyo with 156 people on board, stopped in Mumbai, India. Shortly after...
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| x Laju incident |
The Laju Incident (Chinese: 拉裕事件) occurred on 31 January 1974 in Singapore, when four armed men attacked the Shell oil refinery complex on Pulau Bukom and later hijacked the ferryboat Laju.
On 31 January 1974, four men armed with submachine guns and...
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| x TWA Flight 847 |
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TWA Flight 847 was an international Trans World Airlines flight which was hijacked by Lebanese Shia Islamists on Friday morning, June 14, 1985, after originally taking off from Cairo, Egypt. The flight was en route from Athens, Greece to Rome, Italy...
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| x Indian Airlines Flight 814 |
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Indian Airlines Flight 814 (call sign IC-814) was an Indian Airlines flight en route from Tribhuvan International Airport (Kathmandu, Nepal) to Indira Gandhi International Airport (Delhi, India) when it was hijacked by five Pakistani nationals on 24...
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| x Platte Canyon High School shooting |
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The Platte Canyon High School hostage crisis was an incident of a hostage taking and shooting that occurred at Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, Colorado, on September 27, 2006. The gunman, 53-year-old Duane Roger Morrison entered the school...
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| x 1991 Sacramento hostage crisis |
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The 1991 Sacramento Hostage Crisis occurred on April 4, 1991, in Sacramento, California, United States, in which four people took hostages at a Good Guys! Electronics store located near the old Florin Mall. During the incident, three hostages as...
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| x Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis |
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The Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis took place from 14 June to 19 June 1995, when a group of 80 to 150 Chechen fighters led by Shamil Basayev attacked the southern Russian city of Budyonnovsk (pop. 60,000, often spelled Budennovsk), some 70...
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| x Canadian caper |
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The "Canadian caper" was the popular name given to the covert rescue by the Government of Canada of six American diplomats who evaded capture during the seizure of the United States embassy in Tehran, Iran and taking of embassy personnel as hostages...
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| x Loveland River House Incident |
The Loveland River House Incident was a hostage crisis that occurred on January 3, 1989 at the River House Restaurant on the Big Thompson River about 4 miles west of Loveland, Colorado, Larimer County, Colorado on state highway 34. The incident...
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| x Amish school shooting |
The Amish school shooting refers to an attack that occurred at the West Nickel Mines School, an Amish one-room schoolhouse in the Old Order Amish community of Nickel Mines, a village in Bart Township of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States,...
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| x Grand Mosque Seizure |
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The Grand Mosque Seizure on November 20, 1979, was an armed attack and takeover by armed Islamic fundamentalist dissidents of the Al-Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest place in Islam. The insurgents declared that the Mahdi, or...
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| x 1977 Hanafi Siege |
The 1977 Hanafi Siege refers to an incident that occurred March 9–11, 1977, in which three buildings in Washington, D.C. were seized by 12 African-American Muslim gunmen, who took 149 hostages and killed a radio journalist and a police officer....
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| x Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis |
The Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis occurred on May 16, 1986, at Cokeville, Wyoming, United States, when former town marshal David Young, and his wife Doris Young, took 167 children and adults hostage at Cokeville Elementary School. After...
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| x Kizlyar raid |
The Kizlyar-Pervomayskoye hostage crisis, known in Russia as the terrorist act in Kizylar (Террористический акт в Кизляре) was a guerrilla raid conducted by the Chechen separatists in January 1996 during the First Chechen War, which soon turned into...
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| x Black Sea hostage crisis |
The Black Sea hostage crisis took place January 16–19, 1996 on the Black Sea during the First Chechen War. It ended without bloodshed after three days with the safe release of more than 219 unharmed captives. 13 others were hospitalized because of...
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| x May 21, 2001 Abu Sayyaf kidnappings |
The Dos Palmas kidnappings was a hostage crisis which initially took place on Dos Palmas, an upscale island resort at Palawan, Philippines, organized by Abu Sayyaf guerrilla leader Abu Sabaya. Twenty hostages were initially captured without incident...
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| x Joseph C. Palczynski |
Joseph C. "Joe" Palczynski (November 11, 1968 - March 21, 2000) was a spree killer in the suburbs of Baltimore who in March 2000 terrorized residents in the region by killing four people and taking a family of three as hostages in one of the longest...
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| x 2007 Basilan beheading incident |
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2007 Basilan beheading incident was an Islamic insurgency between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels, and the Philippine Army which led to the execution of about 14 or 23 members of the Philippine Marines, and beheaded 11 of them on the...
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| x 1977 Dutch school hostage crisis |
On the morning of Monday, May 23, 1977 four armed South-Moluccans took hostage of 105 children and their 5 teachers at a primary school in Bovensmilde in the Dutch province of Drenthe. At the same time nine others hijacked a train in the nearby De...
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| x 1977 Dutch train hostage crisis |
On May 23, 1977 a train hijacking took place close to the village of De Punt in the Drenthe province, northeast of the Netherlands. Nine armed Moluccans pulled the emergency brake around 9 AM and took about 50 people as hostages. The hijacking...
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| x 1978 Dutch province hall hostage crisis |
In the morning of March 13, 1978, at 9:45AM three South-Moluccans seized the province hall in Assen, the Netherlands. Some of the people inside could escape by jumping out of the window, including the Queen's Commissioner of the Drenthe province. 15...
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| x 1975 Dutch train hostage crisis |
On December 2 in 1975 seven South Moluccans seized a train with about 50 passengers on board in open countryside near the village of Wijster, halfway between Hoogeveen and Beilen in the northern part of the Netherlands. The hijacking lasted for 12...
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| x 1975 Indonesian consulate hostage crisis |
On December 4, 1975 six armed Moluccans raided the Indonesian consulate in Amsterdam in support of a train hijacking near the village of Wijster which had started two days before.
One hostage tried to flee by jumping out of a window but fell 10...
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| x Balcombe Street Siege |
The Balcombe Street Siege was an incident involving members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and London's Metropolitan Police Service lasting from 6 December to 12 December 1975. The siege ended with the surrender of the four IRA...
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| x Valle del Cauca Deputies hostage crisis |
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The Valle del Cauca Deputies hostage crisis (Spanish: Secuestro de los diputados del Valle del Cauca) refers to the kidnapping of 12 Deputies of the Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia, on April 12, 2002 by members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces...
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| x Operation Entebbe |
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Operation Entebbe (also known as the Yonatan Operation (Hebrew: מבצע יונתן), the Entebbe Raid or Operation Thunderbolt) was a counter-terrorism hostage-rescue mission carried out by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on...
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| x 2007 Taliban-seized South Korean hostage crisis |
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The 2007 South Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan began on July 19, 2007, when 23 South Korean missionaries were captured and held hostage by members of the Taliban while passing through Ghazni Province of Afghanistan. Two male hostages were...
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| x Alta View Hospital hostage incident |
The Alta View Hospital hostage incident began the night of September 20, 1991 when Richard Worthington, armed with a shotgun, a handgun and sticks of dynamite arrived at Alta View Hospital in Sandy, UT in an attempt to kill Dr. Glade Curtis who had...
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| x Lebanon Hostage Crisis |
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The Lebanon hostage crisis refers to the systematic kidnapping in Lebanon of 96 foreign hostages of 21 national origins - mostly American and western European - between 1982 and 1992. At least 10 hostages perished in captivity: some murdered, while...
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| x Johnson Space Center shooting |
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The Johnson Space Center shooting was an incident of hostage taking that occurred on April 20, 2007 in Building 44, the Communication and Tracking Development Laboratory, at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, United States....
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| x Spaghetti House siege |
The Spaghetti House Siege occurred on September 28, 1975, at the Spaghetti House restaurant in Knightsbridge, London. Franklin Davies, a Nigerian, led two other gunmen into an armed robbery of the Spaghetti House, where managers of the chain had...
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| x Shooting rampage by a Japanese youth |
Misao Katagiri (片桐 操, Katagiri Misao, April 15, 1947 - July 21, 1972) was a Japanese murderer. He was born in Tokyo and reportedly loved guns. On July 29, 1965, he shot dead one policeman and injured another in Kanagawa Prefecture. He stole a...
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| x Torp hostage crisis |
The Torp hostage crisis occurred on September 28, 1994 at Sandefjord Airport, Torp, Norway. Two Swedish robbers took two police officers and two pensioners as hostages. The police freed the hostages and killed one of the hostage takers. It is the...
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| x Gladbeck hostage crisis |
The Gladbeck hostage crisis was a hostage-taking in August 1988 after an armed bank raid in Gladbeck, Germany. Two men with previous criminal records, Dieter Degowski and Hans-Jürgen Rösner, went on the run for two days through Germany and the...
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| x Moscow theater hostage crisis |
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The Moscow theatre hostage crisis, also known as the 2002 Nord-Ost siege, was the seizure of a crowded Moscow theatre on October 23, 2002 by about 40-50 armed Chechens who claimed allegiance to the separatist movement in Chechnya. They took 850...
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| x Garuda Indonesia Flight 206 |
Garuda Indonesia Flight 206 was a domestic Garuda Indonesia flight that was hijacked on 28 March 1981.
This was the first serious Indonesian airline hijacking, since an earlier case was a desperate Marine hijacker who was killed by the pilot himself...
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| x Beslan school hostage crisis |
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The Beslan school hostage crisis (also referred to as the Beslan school siege or Beslan massacre) began when a group of armed mostly Ingush and Chechen militants took more than 1,100 people (including 777 children) hostage on September 1, 2004, at...
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| x Munich massacre |
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The Munich massacre is an informal name for events occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually murdered by Black September, a militant group with ties...
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| x Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis |
The Hillary Clinton campaign office hostage crisis occurred on November 30, 2007, when 47-year-old Somersworth resident Leeland E. Eisenberg took six hostages at the Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign office in Rochester, New Hampshire,...
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| x Del valle hostage incident |
Circa 1969 (please provide correct date), at Del Valle Elementary School in the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District located in La Puente, California, a first (possibly second) grade teacher named Mr. Poly (spelling in doubt could also be...
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| x Iran hostage crisis |
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The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States where 53 Americans were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981, after a group of Islamist students and militants took over the American...
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| x 1974 Huntsville Prison Siege |
The 1974 Huntsville Prison Siege was an eleven-day prison uprising that took place from July 24 to August 3, 1974 at the Huntsville Unit or the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas. The standoff was one of the longest hostage-taking sieges...
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| x Palace of Justice siege |
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The Palace of Justice siege (Toma del Palacio de Justicia in Spanish) was a 1985 attack against the Supreme Court of Colombia, in which members of the M-19 guerrilla group took over the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, Colombia, and held the Supreme...
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| x Waco Siege |
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The Waco Siege began on February 28, 1993 when the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) attempted to execute a search warrant at the Branch Davidian ranch at Mount Carmel, a property located nine miles (14 km) east-northeast...
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| x 1975 AIA building hostage crisis | 50 |
The AIA building hostage crisis was a major event which took placed at the AIA Building in Jalan Raja Chulan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 5 August 1975. The Japanese Red Army took more than 50 hostages at the AIA building housing several embassies in...
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