Kidnapping

Police in Sofia have apprehended two individuals, aged 22 and 25, in connection with the abduction of a minor girl, as reported by her mother. Law enforcement authorities have successfully traced the whereabouts of the vehicle used by the kidnappers.

Hostage-taking situations are rare in Switzerland, but they have happened in the past in banks and businesses.

An armed man took staff hostage at a Procter & Gamble factory in northwestern Turkey on Thursday in an apparent protest against Israel's military campaign in Gaza, the Demiroren News Agency reported.

Israeli soldiers ignored cries for "help" when they stormed a Gaza building holding three hostages just days before killing them by mistake, said a military investigation published on Thursday.

He ruled out any general cease-fire without the release of all the hostages

Authorities responded to a hostage situation allegedly taking place at a pharmacy in a city in southwestern Germany.
The police announced on Twitter that due to the currently unclear risk situation, the area has been secured and that more information is expected.

Relatives of 46 people from the Hadzici municipality who went missing in June 1992 and whose bodies have yet to be found held a rally outside the state prosecutor's office in Sarajevo on Monday, holding pictures of their loved ones and a banner with the names of the disappeared.

A man with a firearm who held several people hostage at Apple's flagship store in central Amsterdam was overpowered late Tuesday after a siege lasting several hours, police said, adding that the last of the hostages had been freed.

A group of 17 U.S. missionaries including children was kidnapped by a gang in Haiti on Oct. 16, according to a voice message sent to various religious missions by an organization with direct knowledge of the incident.

The missionaries were on their way home from building an orphanage, according to a message from Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries.

Vucic praised the cooperation between the Ministry of the Interior and the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime.
Vui also thanked the security services and said that this was "a big blow for the mafia".