A group of hostage-takers promised to release Wednesday night 31 remaining daycare students and four teachers in Manila whom they seized aboard a tourist bus that was supposed to take them to a field trip in Tagaytay.
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One of the suspects who hostaged at least 32 school-children and two teachers aboard a tourist bus in front of the Bonifacio Shrine near Manila City Hall on Wednesday morning, demanded free education for day-care center children.
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After 98 days,the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta(MEND) handed over their two Italian hostages Cosma Russo and Franco Arena to a visiting Italian journalist Massimo Alberizzi in the Niger Delta on Thursday 15, 2007.
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Desperate Niger Delta militants attacked and killed two police escorts on a Nigerian LNG (Nigeria LNG) ferry Monday afternoon in Bonny.
The militants were looking for foreign oil workers to kidnap, but when they found none, they left and disappeared in the creeks leaving the passengers on the Nigeria LNG ferry in fear and trembling.
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Kidnappers in Iraq have released a videotape of five Western private security contractors abducted in southern Iraq almost seven weeks ago.
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Oil company officials in Nigeria Thursday confirmed that armed attackers have retreated from two oil facilities in the Niger Delta. But, as Gilbert da Costa in Abuja reports, the negotiations leading to the release of four foreign workers seized three weeks ago are proving a lot more difficult.
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