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Former Indian lawmaker, his brother fatally shot live on TV

A former Indian lawmaker convicted of kidnapping and facing murder and assault charges has been fatally shot along with his brother in a dramatic attack caught live on TV in northern India

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Two ‘predators’ guilty of kidnapping women at Vauxhall nightclub

Two men have been convicted of kidnapping two women at a nightclub in Vauxhall.

Evening Standard

Shannon O'Neil: Mexico’s carnage has no military solution

The recent kidnapping of four and murder of two U.S. citizens in the border city of Matamoros is just one of the latest grisly reminders to Americans of Mexico’s inability to provide basic safety, whether for its beleaguered citizens or visitors from across the border. U.S. legislators like Senator Lindsey…

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Govt employee granted bail after alleged kidnap plot

A NSW government agency employee has been granted bail after her arrest for allegedly helping six men commit a violent kidnapping in Sydney's west.

AAP

Former Service NSW employee granted bail over alleged involvement in Sydney kidnapping

Police allege the 21-year-old accessed addresses and driver's licences through her government job before passing it on to members of a criminal syndicate.

ABC News

Govt agency worker charged with role in gruesome kidnap

A NSW government agency employee has been charged over a violent kidnapping in Sydney involving what police describe as an "extreme" level of violence.

AAP

Man charged with kidnapping mother and child goes on trial

A federal court trial is underway in Vermont for a man charged with kidnapping a woman and her 4-year-old son in early 2019

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Gunmen kidnap 80, including children, in northwest Nigeria

Gunmen abducted at least 80 people, mostly women and children, in Nigeria's Zamfara state, a hotspot for kidnappings for ransom by armed gangs targeting remote villages, residents said on Saturday.

Reuters

Kidnapping gang forced men into van, beat them and threatened to cut off fingers and ears

Mason Schubeler, 20, Harri Pearce, 22, Reece Speirs, 23, Ricky Fidler, 21, and Laura Watson, 46, all played their part in a terrifying kidnap which saw two men bound with cable ties and forced into a van on July 1 last year

Daily Mirror

Platypus ‘abducted from the wild and boarded onto Brisbane train’

Two people are being hunted by police on suspicion of kidnapping a wild platypus and boarding it on a Brisbane train.

Evening Standard

Murder Mystery 2 viewers flag ‘hilarious’ problem with the title of new Netflix movie

No 1 film sees Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston reprise their roles from 2019’s ‘Murder Mystery’

The Independent UK

Murder Mystery 2 viewers point out ‘hilarious’ issue with the title of new Netflix movie

No 1 film sees Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston reprise their roles from 2019’s ‘Murder Mystery’

The Independent UK

Gunmen in Nigeria seize eight students in latest abduction

Random kidnappings of students have become common in parts of northern Nigeria in the last decade.

Al Jazeera

Haiti rights group records three-fold rise in kidnappings for early 2023

At least 389 kidnappings were registered in Haiti in the first three months of this year, rights group CARDH said on Tuesday, marking a three-fold increase from the last quarter of 2022 as gangs look to recoup losses from international sanctions.

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Terence Kelly sentenced over abduction of Cleo Smith near Carnarvon in WA's outback

Terence Kelly is sentenced to 13 years and six months in prison for kidnapping four-year-old Cleo Smith near Carnarvon in Western Australia's outback and holding her captive for 18 days.

Reuters

Gunmen in Nigeria seize eight students in latest kidnapping

Gunmen in Nigeria's northern Kaduna state kidnapped eight secondary school students coming from school along with an unknown number of others, authorities said on Tuesday, the latest in a wave of such abductions.

Bangkok Post

Kidnappers flee after killing female Chinese student

Police suspect three Chinese men have left the country after kidnapping a female Chinese university student and then killing her when they failed to obtain a 2.5-million-baht ransom from her father in China.

Bangkok Post

Kidnappers flee after killing female Chinese student

Police suspected three Chinese men had fled the country after kidnapping a female Chinese university student and then killing her when they failed to obtain a 2.5-million-baht ransom from her father in China.

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Liverpool Echo

Dad beat, strangled and kidnapped wife with child in the car in three days of horror

Nathanial Corkish dragged his wife up the stairs by her neck before beating her with a hammer and kidnapping her

The Independent UK

Who is Cleotha Henderson: Ex-convict accused of abducting and killing Memphis heiress Eliza Fletcher

Former convict, who was released from prison in 2020 for kidnapping, is now facing trial for the kidnap and murder of Eliza Fletcher

The Times of India

Murder of 12-year-old: SC notice to Delhi govt on father's plea seeking CBI probe

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has sought a response from the Delhi government on a plea seeking a CBI investigation into a kidnapping and murder of a 12-year-old boy in 2014.

Dynamite News

Gangster-turned politician Atiq Ahmad being taken back to Sabramati Jail amid tight security

Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Umesh Pal kidnapping case, is being taken back to Sabarmati Jail in Ahmedabad on Wednesday. Read further on Dynamite News:

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"I'll be killed in two weeks...": Atiq Ahmed's brother, says "CM understands my pain"

Uttar Pradesh's mafia-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed’s brother Ashraf Ahmed, one of the seven persons who have been acquitted in the 2006 Umesh Pal kidnapping case, on Tuesday claimed that an officer revealed that he will be killed in two weeks. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Independent UK

Man charged with kidnap and murder of 53-year-old in Leicester

A 37-year-old man remains in police custody

Dynamite News

Atiq Ahmed's hearing in Prayagraj court today; Slain Umesh Pal's kin seek death penalty, say "want his empire of terror to end"

Family of Umesh Pal, the lawyer who was abducted and killed, on Tuesday said that they want the mafia-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, a prime accused in the case to be given the death sentence stating that they want his "empire of terror to end". Read further on Dynamite News:

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