Tag: #hostage-taking
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Man jailed after taking his live-in partner hostage inside comfort room
MANAOAG, Pangasinan — A man was put into jail after he injured his live-in partner during a 30-minute hostage-taking drama inside a comfort room at Barangay Pugaro this town Thursday.
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Hostages freed in Texas synagogue standoff, suspect dead
COREYVILLE, United States – All four people taken hostage in a more than 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue have been freed unharmed, police said late Saturday, and their suspected captor is dead.
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Caloocan cops to help in contact-tracing as hostage drama turns into 'super spreader'
Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered the Caloocan City Police to help in the contact-tracing efforts of the Local Government Unit (LGU) after the recent hostage-taking incident in the area turned into a super spreader event as kibitzers swarmed the incident to get photos and videos.
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Superspreader event? DILG orders contact tracing of crowd in Caloocan hostage taking
The Department of the Interior and Government (DILG) ordered Monday, Aug. 30, to conduct an intensified contact tracing of on-lookers which flocked the scene during a recent hostage taking incident in Caloocan City as fears of massive infection of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was raised.
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Death toll in Marikina City Jail escape try rises to 3
The death toll in a botched escape plan of inmates at the Marikina City Jail has increased to three after a jail guard succumbed to serious body injuries, the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) said Friday, Aug. 27.