abduction
Nigerian Boys Taken in Kidnapping Claimed by Boko Haram Handed Back
Supporters urged authorities to rescue hundreds of abducted schoolboys in the northwestern state of Katsina, Nigeria, on Dec. 17. Photo: kola sulaimon/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Updated Dec. 17, 2020 4:32 pm ET More than 300 schoolboys kidnapped by gunmen from their boarding school in northwest Nigeria last Friday were handed over to government security agencies late …
Wyoming Amber Alert Issued for Abducted 3-Year-Old Girl
UPDATE (4:01 p.m. Saturday): Authorities are providing additional details of Saturday’s child abduction that prompted an Amber Alert in multiple states. The three-year-old child, Savannah Camele, was taken forcibly by 53-year-old Ricky Trujillo at about 12:35 p.m. in Hanover, Colorado. Trujillo is believed to be armed with a hunting knife and traveling in a white …
Faye Swetlik died from asphyxiation hours after abduction, coroner says
The first-grader died of asphyxiation hours after she was abducted last week in Cayce, Lexington County Corner Margaret Fisher said, citing the results of a recent autopsy. The girl was last seen playing in her front yard on February 10 after taking the bus home from Springdale Elementary School, Cayce Department of Public Safety Sgt. …
Businessman speaks of abduction and torture by gang on Irish border | World news
The business executive who was abducted and tortured near the Irish border has spoken for the first time about a crime that has shocked and bewildered Ireland. Kevin Lunney said the gang that kidnapped him went through a checklist of sadistic acts which left him in agony. “I think certainly the breaking the leg was …
‘The untouchables’: Ireland horrified by brutal mafia-style abduction | World news
A certain genius enabled Seán Quinn to make his name in the Irish borderlands. A farmer’s son who left school at 14, he turned a region of dark hedgerows and stony farms, of poverty and emigration, into a thriving industrial hub. He started by selling gravel from the family farm and expanded, creating one company …
