Bus Hostage

A gunman who shot and wounded two people and took 17 passengers hostage Tuesday at the main bus station in Rio de Janeiro surrendered and freed his captives after negotiations, Brazilian police said.

A man who said he was armed with weapons and explosives seized control of a bus in the western Ukrainian city of Lutsk on Tuesday and took about 20 people on board hostage, police said.

A hijacker armed with what turned out to be a toy gun was shot dead by police in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday after he held a busload of passengers hostage for several hours on a major bridge in peak-hour traffic.

The Wisconsin man accused of kidnapping a 13-year-old girl, after killing her parents, and holding her hostage for months, sometimes under his bed, told police he had picked his victim at random, prosecutors said on Monday.

The Taliban on Tuesday pulled passengers from several buses in northern Afghanistan, killed at least 16 of them and took dozens of others hostage, officials said.

Philippine police shot and killed a man who took a fellow bus passenger hostage in central Manila Today, authorities said.

Two brothers of a former Cleveland school bus driver accused of holding three women hostage in his house for a decade described Ariel Castro as a "monster" and said they hope he "rots in jail" if convicted of kidnapping and raping the women.

This town of 2,400 nestled amid peanut farms and cotton fields has long relied on a strong Christian faith, a policy of "love thy neighbour," and the power of group prayer.

A hostage-taking by a gunman accused of fatally shooting a school bus driver and then disappearing with a young boy into an underground bunker entered its third night on Thursday in a rural corner of southeast Alabama.

A standoff in rural Alabama went into a second full day on Thursday as police surrounded an underground bunker where a retired truck driver was holding a 5-year-old hostage he grabbed off a school bus after shooting the driver dead.

Two years after 25-year-old Rahul Raj was shot dead in a BEST bus at Andheri, his father Kundan Raj Prasad is a furious man seeking to quash all rumours surrounding his son's death.Bihar resident Rahul Raj had taken a BEST bus (no 332) hostage at Andheri on Oct 27, 2008. He was armed with a pistol and said he wanted to kill MNS chief Raj Thackeray....

The Philippine justice chief said on Thursday she'll recommend criminal and administrative charges against about 10 officials, police officers and journalists over last month's killing of eight Hong Kong tourists in a botched hostage rescue that outraged China. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said the identities of those to be charged, details...

An injured survivor of the Philippines bus hostage drama in which eight Hong Kong tourists were killed returned to the territory on Thursday to continue medical treatment.Jason Leung, identified by Canadian media as a Canadian citizen, had been hospitalised in Manila after surgery on a head wound.He was taken by ambulance to Manila airport on Thurs...

A day after the Philippines bus hijacking crisis killed eight people, all Chinese tourists from Hong Kong, China has demanded a probe into the incident.Meanwhile, Philippines' National Police Director General called for a thorough investigation into the incident after his men faced flak for their response to the hostage drama. In Hong Kong a "black...

An angry ex-policeman hijacked a bus full of Hong Kong tourists in the Philippine capital, holding them for 12 hours, before a police raid that ended with eight hostages and the gunman dead.Local hospitals reported eight bodies of hostages were brought in, and police said the gunman himself had been shot dead by a marksman taking part in the police...

A gunman who shot and wounded two people and took 17 passengers hostage Tuesday at the main bus station in Rio de Janeiro surrendered and freed his captives after negotiations, Brazilian police said.

A man who said he was armed with weapons and explosives seized control of a bus in the western Ukrainian city of Lutsk on Tuesday and took about 20 people on board hostage, police said.

A hijacker armed with what turned out to be a toy gun was shot dead by police in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday after he held a busload of passengers hostage for several hours on a major bridge in peak-hour traffic.

The Wisconsin man accused of kidnapping a 13-year-old girl, after killing her parents, and holding her hostage for months, sometimes under his bed, told police he had picked his victim at random, prosecutors said on Monday.

The Taliban on Tuesday pulled passengers from several buses in northern Afghanistan, killed at least 16 of them and took dozens of others hostage, officials said.

Philippine police shot and killed a man who took a fellow bus passenger hostage in central Manila Today, authorities said.

Two brothers of a former Cleveland school bus driver accused of holding three women hostage in his house for a decade described Ariel Castro as a "monster" and said they hope he "rots in jail" if convicted of kidnapping and raping the women.

This town of 2,400 nestled amid peanut farms and cotton fields has long relied on a strong Christian faith, a policy of "love thy neighbour," and the power of group prayer.

A hostage-taking by a gunman accused of fatally shooting a school bus driver and then disappearing with a young boy into an underground bunker entered its third night on Thursday in a rural corner of southeast Alabama.

A standoff in rural Alabama went into a second full day on Thursday as police surrounded an underground bunker where a retired truck driver was holding a 5-year-old hostage he grabbed off a school bus after shooting the driver dead.

Two years after 25-year-old Rahul Raj was shot dead in a BEST bus at Andheri, his father Kundan Raj Prasad is a furious man seeking to quash all rumours surrounding his son's death.Bihar resident Rahul Raj had taken a BEST bus (no 332) hostage at Andheri on Oct 27, 2008. He was armed with a pistol and said he wanted to kill MNS chief Raj Thackeray....

The Philippine justice chief said on Thursday she'll recommend criminal and administrative charges against about 10 officials, police officers and journalists over last month's killing of eight Hong Kong tourists in a botched hostage rescue that outraged China. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said the identities of those to be charged, details...

An injured survivor of the Philippines bus hostage drama in which eight Hong Kong tourists were killed returned to the territory on Thursday to continue medical treatment.Jason Leung, identified by Canadian media as a Canadian citizen, had been hospitalised in Manila after surgery on a head wound.He was taken by ambulance to Manila airport on Thurs...

A day after the Philippines bus hijacking crisis killed eight people, all Chinese tourists from Hong Kong, China has demanded a probe into the incident.Meanwhile, Philippines' National Police Director General called for a thorough investigation into the incident after his men faced flak for their response to the hostage drama. In Hong Kong a "black...

An angry ex-policeman hijacked a bus full of Hong Kong tourists in the Philippine capital, holding them for 12 hours, before a police raid that ended with eight hostages and the gunman dead.Local hospitals reported eight bodies of hostages were brought in, and police said the gunman himself had been shot dead by a marksman taking part in the police...