One of two Filipino TV journalists freed from eight months of captivity by the Abu Sayyaf said Monday the bandit group treated them “like sons” and that not once were they harmed.
As they prowled the In Amenas gas complex for hostages, the gunmen who attacked the Algerian site discovered a brutal but effective tactic to persuade foreign workers to come out of hiding.
A prison riot in the northeastern Brazilian state of Sergipe ended Monday after the inmates released all 141 hostages after lengthy negotiations, regional officials said.
Communist rebels late Monday freed the two remaining hostages they took following the simultaneous raids they staged on three mining companies in Claver, Surigao del Norte, police said Tuesday.
MANILA, Philippines—Authorities are currently negotiating with an inmate who shot dead a jail officer and another prisoner who held hostage roughly a hundred inmates at a detention facility in Antique Thursday, a police spokesman said. Detainee Christopher Fernando shot Jail Officer 2 Romer Saquibal while the inmates were having dinner inside a Bureau of Jail [...]
Armed men stormed a village in Tungawan, Zamboanga Sibugay, on Tuesday and took captive six persons, including a five-year-old girl, for about 12 hours, authorities said Wednesday.
