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Student gunman dies from injuries

CHARLES DAVIS Green Bay Press-Gazette 12/01/2010
Teen takes nursery school kids hostage -- with swords

A 17-year-old youth was arrested in the eastern French city of Besancon on Monday, after police negotiators convinced him to release the 20 schoolchildren (aged four to six) and a teacher he had taken hostage.

Student gunman dies from injuries

The 15-year-old Marinette High School student who held 23 students and a teacher hostage has died. The gunman, identified by Marinette Police Chief Jeff Skorik as Samuel Hengel of Porterfield, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at 10:44 a.m., a day after a five-hour standoff in which he held 23 students and a teacher hostage at a Northeastern Wisconsin high school.

Wisconsin teen hospitalized after holding classmates, teacher hostage

A school day took a terrifying turn in northeastern Wisconsin Monday when nearly two dozen students and a teacher were held hostage.

Hong Kong tourists held hostage in the Philippines, ten including gunman killed

The death toll from Monday's hostage crisis in Manila climbed to 10 as of early Tuesday, with another hostage succumbing to injuries in a Manila hospital.

Hostage taker shot by Chinese police woman! Raw video captured

An undercover policewoman shot and killed a hostage taker when the robber was distracted during a rescue race against the clock. The attempted robber held a woman hostage at knife point on the street of Guangzhou on the 7th Jul 2010.

'Man in custody' as Virginia hostage ordeal ends

WASHINGTON — A standoff involving a man who took several people hostage at a Virginia post office has ended without bloodshed, according to the local mayor.

Gunman at upstate NY school surrenders to police

PINE PLAINS, N.Y. — A former student held a school administrator hostage for more than an hour Tuesday morning, then surrendered to police without firing a shot, officials said.

36 reported killed in Amazon land protest; Tribes keep 38 Peru police hostage

Hundreds of indigenous protesters were holding 38 police hostage early on Saturday in Peru's Amazon jungle after fights between tribes and police killed up to 36 people in the worst violence of President Alan Garcia's government.

Canadian hostage drama in Jamaica ends peacefully

Horace Helps Reuters UK 04/20/2009

Gunman holds crew on passenger jet in Jamaica

Horace Helps Reuters UK 04/19/2009
Canadian hostage drama in Jamaica ends peacefully

KINGSTON (Reuters) - A would-be hijacker surrendered to authorities on Monday after agreeing to free the last of more than 180 hostages he seized hours earlier aboard a Canadian charter jet in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Gunman holds crew on passenger jet in Jamaica

KINGSTON (Reuters) - A gunman, described as "mentally challenged," was holding five crew members on a commercial jet in Montego Bay, Jamaica, on Monday after all passengers on the aircraft were released, authorities said.