Several police officers were held hostage by angry demonstrators in the same city but later released.
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The Italian Foreign Ministry reported Saturday that four Italian journalists who were held hostage in Syria for more than a week were released.
The robbers stole millions from the vaults of the bank's headquarters at Donegall Square West on 20 December, as the families of the two bank officials were held hostage.
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Other lawsuits have been filed against the FARC in federal court, records show -- including a pending 2009 case seeking damages filed by three American contractors who were held hostage by the guerrilla group.
However, the widower's tangled love life was exposed on the programme, and there was tragedy for him when he and his pregnant mistress Serena Donovan were held hostage during a siege at the hospital.
"It would be disappointing and disturbing if our ability to provide assistance to victims of natural disasters and our troops in Bosnia and Iraq were held hostage to partisan politics in the House, " White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles said in a statement.
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He said the latest reports indicate she is being held near Haredhere, a pirate base almost 200 miles (320 km) up the coast from the Somali capital, Mogadishu - the same area where the British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler were held hostage for more than a year.
But the Iran hostage crisis played a huge role because the American people were horrified that our fellow citizens were being held hostage, number one.
He said the couple were being held hostage on a Singapore-registered container ship called the Kota Wajah.
The Algerian military's intervention apparently came as a surprise to some of the governments whose nationals were being held hostage.
All four Gwinnett County, Georgia, firefighters who were being held hostage suffered minor injuries when authorities entered a home to free them, Gwinnett County police spokesman Ed Ritter said.
He said their captors had not officially asked for a ransom and that they were currently being held hostage on board a container ship.
Five firefighters were initially being held hostage, but one of them was released late Wednesday afternoon so he could move the fire truck from in front of the house, according to the fire department spokesman.
Earlier, Algeria's state media reported that all Algerian nationals who had been held hostage were free: some had fled, while others were released.
On Thursday, Algeria's state media reported that all Algerian nationals who had been held hostage were free: some had fled, while others were released.
They made it clear they were no longer prepared to be held hostage by the Greeks.
All 86 passengers who had been held hostage for five days were freed.
Others were pushed into writing by circumstance: Mary Rowlandson, who was captured and held hostage by native Americans in 1675, later described her experiences in a vivid account that was part anthropology (her captors' alarming diet included tortoises and horses' ears) and part adventure story.
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