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# kidnapped - Today’s News
The anguish of parents and families highlighted on International Missing Children’s Day
A child going missing is every parent’s nightmare – but what services are available to support the parents and families of missing children?
# kidnapped - Saturday 11 May, 2013
Miracle escapes: The kidnapped children who returned home
Jaycee Dugard, Shawn Hornbeck, Elizabeth Smart: All were kidnapped, all returned home.
# kidnapped - Monday 22 April, 2013
Afghan Taliban capture Turkish civilians after helicopter lands
Eight Turks and an Afghan from a civilian helicopter which made an emergency landing have been captured by Taliban insurgents.
# kidnapped - Tuesday 19 February, 2013
Seven French holidaymakers kidnapped in Cameroon
A family of French citizens, including four children, have been kidnapped by a Nigerian terrorist group suspected to be Boko Haram.
# kidnapped - Tuesday 5 February, 2013
‘Brave’ five-year-old safe after week-long hostage ordeal
The kidnapper was killed during the rescue operation.
# kidnapped - Wednesday 16 January, 2013
Two kidnapped Dutch children found in Bosnia
Bosnian have located two Dutch children who were kidnapped in the Netherlands last year and arrested their former foster parents.
Irish citizen among oil-workers kidnapped from BP plant in Algeria
The Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has called for the immediate release of an Irish citizen reportedly among those kidnapped from a BP oil field in the south of Algeria.
# kidnapped - Wednesday 19 December, 2012
NBC journalist and TV crew escape abduction in Syria
More than a dozen armed gunmen kidnapped and held NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel and several colleagues for five days in Syria.
# kidnapped - Tuesday 20 November, 2012
Berlusconi’s accountant held hostage for €35 million ransom
Armed intruders demanded the ransom from the former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi after holding his accountant hostage for a night.
# kidnapped - Tuesday 6 November, 2012
Hulk’s sister ‘kidnapped’ in Brazil – reports
The player’s mother was quoted by the daily Correio as saying that the family are “waiting for a contact”.
# kidnapped - Sunday 5 August, 2012
VIDEO: Syria rebels say hostages are elite soldiers from Iran
The rebels say that the Iranians kidnapped yesterday are actually Revolutionary Guards and not pilgrims, as was originally claimed.
# kidnapped - Saturday 4 August, 2012
48 pilgrims from Iran kidnapped in Syria – reports
The 48 Iranians were abducted by armed terrorists who boarded their bus in the Syrian capital of Damascus.
# kidnapped - Friday 6 July, 2012
Argentina jails former dictators over stolen baby scandal
Infants were illegally taken from their political prisoners parents 30 years ago.
# kidnapped - Thursday 31 May, 2012
German engineer kidnapped in Nigeria killed
Reports of the killing say it’s unclear if the hostage was killed before or during a failed rescue attempt.
# kidnapped - Monday 7 May, 2012
Al-Qaeda releases video of American hostage
In the video, hostage Warren Weinstein says he will be killed unless President Barack Obama agrees to the militant group’s demands.
# kidnapped - Wednesday 18 April, 2012
Nurse charged with murder after woman shot, baby snatched
The three-day-old boy was taken from his mother after she was fatally wounded outside a Houston hospital.
Three-day-old baby abducted as mother lay fatally wounded
The infant was found later yesterday after being grabbed from his dying mother.
# kidnapped - Sunday 25 March, 2012
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# kidnapped - Thursday 22 March, 2012
Kidnapped British woman freed by Somali pirates
Judith Tebbutt and her husband David were kidnapped in September. David was killed during the attack – a fact Judith, who spent six months in captivity, did not find out until weeks after.
# kidnapped - Sunday 18 March, 2012
US citizen released by Iraqi captors
However, confusion surrounds release of man who says he was kidnapped after serving with the US military in Iraq.
# kidnapped - Thursday 15 March, 2012
Parents to be reunited with son eight years after he was kidnapped
US authorities found the boy living with his former babysitter in Texas.
# kidnapped - Friday 25 November, 2011
Three tourists kidnapped, another killed in Mali
The four were in a restaurant in Timbuktu when four armed men forced them out of the building.
# kidnapped - Friday 11 November, 2011
Syrian violence takes an even bloodier turn
Syrians have been snatched from their homes and killed during Syria’s bloodiest month yet in its eight-month-old uprising.
# kidnapped - Saturday 5 November, 2011
Gardaà searching for abducted man find body in Co Meath
Twenty-nine-year-old Ciarán Noonan was abducted from the East Wall area of Dublin on 20 October.
# kidnapped - Tuesday 18 October, 2011
Three charged over alleged imprisonment of four people in Philadelphia basement
The four adults aged between 29 and 41 were found locked in a basement boiler room on Saturday.
# kidnapped - Sunday 2 October, 2011
Suspected pirates take Frenchwoman from Kenya to Somalia
Kenyan and French authorities are working to free Marie Dedieu from her captors in Somalia. She was abducted amid a shoot-out on the sea yesterday.
# kidnapped - Saturday 10 September, 2011
The Daily Fix: Saturday
All of the day’s main news, plus the little bits and pieces you may have missed…
# kidnapped - Thursday 9 June, 2011
Doubts over the identity of kidnapped Syrian blogger
Images used to portray the blogger Amina Arraf have been revealed as those of a London woman, who says she’s never met Arraf.
# kidnapped - Tuesday 7 June, 2011
Gay Syrian blogger kidnapped by armed men
Amina Arraf, author of ‘A Gay Girl in Damascus’ had written posts and given them to her cousin in case anything happened to her. Her family believe she is alive and well.
# kidnapped - Friday 29 April, 2011
Girl who was kept captive for 18 years says she’s “relieved” by her kidnappers’ guilty pleas
Jaycee Lee Dugard was snatched from the street she lived on in June 1991, and was kept hidden in a back garden for 18 years. She gave birth to two daughters during that time.
# kidnapped - Friday 15 April, 2011
Body of Italian peace activist found in Gaza
Vittorio Arrigoni was abducted and strangled by an Islamic group with ties to Al Qaeda.


















































