# abducted - Saturday 13 March, 2021
# Abducted
# Abducted
Dozens of students were kidnapped in northwestern Kaduna after gunmen stormed a college.
# abducted - Saturday 27 February, 2021
# Returned
# Returned
42 people, including 27 children, have been freed.
# abducted - Wednesday 18 September, 2019
# Abducted
# Abducted
The 50-year-old man was treated in hospital for serious injuries to his face and leg.
# abducted - Wednesday 23 May, 2018
# Jastine Valdez
# Jastine Valdez
Gardaí are attempting to trace every movement between Saturday afternoon and his death on Sunday.
# abducted - Friday 13 April, 2018
# Abducted
# Abducted
She was abducted and forced to take sedatives while held captive in a shed and Hindu temple.
# abducted - Friday 13 January, 2017
# Twitter Tip Off
# Twitter Tip Off
Her biological family are said to be “elated”.
# abducted - Friday 30 December, 2016
# Charles Brooke Pickard
# Charles Brooke Pickard
On 26 April 1991, Charles Brooke Pickard was bundled into his own van by a group of masked men.
# abducted - Tuesday 13 September, 2016
# Abducted
# Abducted
The search is just 1km from where Charles Brooke Pickard’s car was found 25 years ago.
# abducted - Friday 10 June, 2016
# Together Again
# Together Again
Maria Mancia had been left with just a single photo of her son since his father took him in 1995.
# abducted - Monday 30 May, 2016
# Charles Brooke Pickard
# Charles Brooke Pickard
Charles Brooke Pickard is believed to have been murdered after he was abducted in 1991.
# abducted - Tuesday 5 January, 2016
# Safe And Sound
# Safe And Sound
The child had been taken in Albuquerque after her mother’s car was stolen.
# abducted - Monday 19 October, 2015
# Missing
# Missing
The 13-year-old went missing 29 years ago this month. Gardaí are still actively investigating his disappearance.
# abducted - Monday 23 February, 2015
# South Sudan
# South Sudan
UNICEF says that armed soldiers searched the area house by house.
# abducted - Monday 12 May, 2014
# Abducted
# Abducted
A total of 276 girls were abducted on April 14 from the northeastern town of Chibok, 223 are still missing.
# abducted - Thursday 8 May, 2014
# abducted - Friday 2 May, 2014
# No Fear
# No Fear
Meanwhile, Gerry Adams is still being questioned by Antrim police about the woman’s abduction and murder.
# abducted - Wednesday 9 October, 2013
# News Fix
# News Fix
Everybody’s talking about Savita, arrests in connection with a murder, and a cash-in-transit robbery.
# abducted - Friday 4 October, 2013
# Madeleine McCann
# Madeleine McCann
Police are trawling through the phone records of people who were staying at the Portuguese resort at the time the little girl went missing.
# abducted - Thursday 30 May, 2013
# April Jones
# April Jones
The young girl’s body has still never been found, though blood and tiny bone fragments that were a near-perfect DNA match were found at Bridger’s cottage.
# abducted - Wednesday 19 December, 2012
# Syria
# Syria
More than a dozen armed gunmen kidnapped and held NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel and several colleagues for five days in Syria.
# abducted - Monday 8 October, 2012
# April Jones
# April Jones
Mark Bridger, 46, appeared at Aberystwyth Magistrates’ Court charged with the murder of the missing girl.
# abducted - Friday 5 October, 2012
# April Jones
# April Jones
Police also say it is “no longer appropriate” for members of the public to continue helping in the search for the five-year-old.
# April Jones
# April Jones
The search for five-year-old April Jones has will continue today, despite adverse weather conditions.
# abducted - Thursday 4 October, 2012
# Abducted
# Abducted
Earlier today, the missing girl’s older sister made an emotional appeal for April’s return. “It’s been too long,” she said.
# abducted - Friday 6 July, 2012
# Argentina
# Argentina
Infants were illegally taken from their political prisoners parents 30 years ago.
# abducted - Thursday 31 May, 2012
# Nigeria
# Nigeria
Reports of the killing say it’s unclear if the hostage was killed before or during a failed rescue attempt.
# abducted - Wednesday 18 April, 2012
# Texas
# Texas
The three-day-old boy was taken from his mother after she was fatally wounded outside a Houston hospital.
# abducted - Friday 25 November, 2011
# Mali
# Mali
The four were in a restaurant in Timbuktu when four armed men forced them out of the building.
# abducted - Saturday 5 November, 2011
# Gardaí
# Gardaí
Twenty-nine-year-old Ciarán Noonan was abducted from the East Wall area of Dublin on 20 October.
# abducted - Monday 24 October, 2011
# Kenya
# Kenya
Kenyan police say they believe Somali militant group al-Shabab is behind the attack, which comes after the group’s recent warning of “bloody battles” which would endanger the lives of civilians.
# abducted - Wednesday 19 October, 2011
# Hostage
# Hostage
The 66-year-old woman was taken from her rented house on a Kenyan island earlier this month by suspected Somali militants.
# abducted - Monday 17 October, 2011
# abducted - Friday 14 October, 2011
# Abducted
# Abducted
The MSF employees were kidnapped from the world’s largest refugee camp in Kenya by gunmen believed to be part of Somalia’s al-Shabab militant group.
# abducted - Sunday 2 October, 2011
# Kidnapped
# Kidnapped
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.
# abducted - Saturday 10 September, 2011
# Daily Fix
# Daily Fix
All of the day’s main news, plus the little bits and pieces you may have missed…
# May Assad Monaghan
# May Assad Monaghan
Six-year-old May Assad Monaghan was taken by her father from Cyprus on Wednesday and brought to Syria. He is demanding that her Irish mother travel to Syria to live with them.
# abducted - Tuesday 30 August, 2011
# Search
# Search
Police in Northern Ireland will resume a search for the remains of murdered teenager Arlene Arkinson tomorrow.
# abducted - Thursday 9 June, 2011
# Blogger
# 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.
# abducted - Friday 29 April, 2011
# Guilty
# Guilty
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.
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