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                                                                                                       Excerpt | Recalling Mumbai's Last Hostage Situation From 2008 - When A Gunman Took Over A Bus
- Friday October 31, 2025
 - Book Excerpts | Jitendra Dixit
 
On October 27, 2008, at around 10:30 am, the news trickled in that a double-decker BEST bus numbered 332 had been hijacked at Kurla.
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                                                                                                       From Double-Decker Bus To Flat, Previous Hostage Crises In Mumbai
- Friday October 31, 2025
 - India News | Press Trust of India
 
Mumbai on Thursday witnessed a tense situation where a large number of children were held captive, but the metropolis is no stranger to hostage crises which have pushed it to the edge and tested police efficiency in non-terror cases.
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                                                                                                       Hamas Hands Over Bodies Of 4 Hostages, Israel Frees Palestinian Prisoners
- Thursday February 27, 2025
 - World News | Agence France-Presse
 
A bus carrying a group of Palestinian prisoners released by Israel under the Gaza ceasefire deal arrived to a cheering crowd in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday.
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                                                                                                       Bus Carrying Freed Palestinian Prisoners Arrives In West Bank
- Saturday February 15, 2025
 - World News | Agence France-Presse
 
A bus carrying a group of Palestinian prisoners released Saturday by Israel under the Gaza ceasefire deal arrived to a cheering crowd in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, according to an AFP journalist.
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                                                                                                       Gunman Arrested After Taking Passengers Hostage On Bus In Brazil: Cops
- Wednesday March 13, 2024
 - World News | Agence France-Presse
 
A gunman who shot and wounded two people and took 17 passengers hostage Tuesday at the main bus station in Rio de Janeiro surrendered and freed his captives after negotiations, Brazilian police said.
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                                                                                                       Shots Heard As Bus Passengers Taken Hostage In Western Ukraine: Police
- Tuesday July 21, 2020
 - World News | Reuters
 
A man who said he was armed with weapons and explosives seized control of a bus in the western Ukrainian city of Lutsk on Tuesday and took about 20 people on board hostage, police said.
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                                                                                                       Brazil Bus Hijacker, Armed With Toy Gun, Shot Dead By Police
- Tuesday August 20, 2019
 - World News | Agence France-Presse
 
A hijacker armed with what turned out to be a toy gun was shot dead by police in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday after he held a busload of passengers hostage for several hours on a major bridge in peak-hour traffic.
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 www.ndtv.com 
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                                                                                                       US Man Kept Teen Captive For 3 Months After Seeing Her Get On School Bus
- Tuesday January 15, 2019
 - World News | Reuters
 
The Wisconsin man accused of kidnapping a 13-year-old girl, after killing her parents, and holding her hostage for months, sometimes under his bed, told police he had picked his victim at random, prosecutors said on Monday.
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 www.ndtv.com 
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                                                                                                       Taliban Shoot Dead 16 Bus Passengers In Northern Afghanistan
- Tuesday May 31, 2016
 - World News | Agence France-Presse
 
The Taliban on Tuesday pulled passengers from several buses in northern Afghanistan, killed at least 16 of them and took dozens of others hostage, officials said.
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                                                                                                       Philippine Police Killed Armed Assailant in Hostage Drama
- Thursday October 8, 2015
 - World News | Agence France-Presse
 
Philippine police shot and killed a man who took a fellow bus passenger hostage in central Manila Today, authorities said.
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Brothers of Cleveland kidnap suspect hope he 'rots in jail'
- Tuesday May 14, 2013
 - World News | Reuters
 
Two brothers of a former Cleveland school bus driver accused of holding three women hostage in his house for a decade described Ariel Castro as a "monster" and said they hope he "rots in jail" if convicted of kidnapping and raping the women.
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USA town prays for gunman to release five-year-old
- Monday February 4, 2013
 - World News | Associated Press
 
This town of 2,400 nestled amid peanut farms and cotton fields has long relied on a strong Christian faith, a policy of "love thy neighbour," and the power of group prayer.
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Boy held hostage in Alabama bunker for third day, say officials
- Friday February 1, 2013
 - World News | Reuters
 
A hostage-taking by a gunman accused of fatally shooting a school bus driver and then disappearing with a young boy into an underground bunker entered its third night on Thursday in a rural corner of southeast Alabama.
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Alabama child hostage standoff in second day at bunker
- Thursday January 31, 2013
 - World News | Associated Press
 
A standoff in rural Alabama went into a second full day on Thursday as police surrounded an underground bunker where a retired truck driver was holding a 5-year-old hostage he grabbed off a school bus after shooting the driver dead.
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 www.ndtv.com 
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Mumbai gunman wanted to take on Raj Thackeray, claims father
- Tuesday November 2, 2010
 - Cities | mid-day.com
 
Two years after 25-year-old Rahul Raj was shot dead in a BEST bus at Andheri, his father Kundan Raj Prasad is a furious man seeking to quash all rumours surrounding his son's death.Bihar resident Rahul Raj had taken a BEST bus (no 332) hostage at Andheri on Oct 27, 2008. He was armed with a pistol and said he wanted to kill MNS chief Raj Thackeray....
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                                                                                                       Excerpt | Recalling Mumbai's Last Hostage Situation From 2008 - When A Gunman Took Over A Bus
- Friday October 31, 2025
 - Book Excerpts | Jitendra Dixit
 
On October 27, 2008, at around 10:30 am, the news trickled in that a double-decker BEST bus numbered 332 had been hijacked at Kurla.
-  
 www.ndtv.com 
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                                                                                                       From Double-Decker Bus To Flat, Previous Hostage Crises In Mumbai
- Friday October 31, 2025
 - India News | Press Trust of India
 
Mumbai on Thursday witnessed a tense situation where a large number of children were held captive, but the metropolis is no stranger to hostage crises which have pushed it to the edge and tested police efficiency in non-terror cases.
-  
 www.ndtv.com 
 - 
                                            
                                                                                                       Hamas Hands Over Bodies Of 4 Hostages, Israel Frees Palestinian Prisoners
- Thursday February 27, 2025
 - World News | Agence France-Presse
 
A bus carrying a group of Palestinian prisoners released by Israel under the Gaza ceasefire deal arrived to a cheering crowd in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday.
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 www.ndtv.com 
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                                                                                                       Bus Carrying Freed Palestinian Prisoners Arrives In West Bank
- Saturday February 15, 2025
 - World News | Agence France-Presse
 
A bus carrying a group of Palestinian prisoners released Saturday by Israel under the Gaza ceasefire deal arrived to a cheering crowd in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, according to an AFP journalist.
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 www.ndtv.com 
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                                                                                                       Gunman Arrested After Taking Passengers Hostage On Bus In Brazil: Cops
- Wednesday March 13, 2024
 - World News | Agence France-Presse
 
A gunman who shot and wounded two people and took 17 passengers hostage Tuesday at the main bus station in Rio de Janeiro surrendered and freed his captives after negotiations, Brazilian police said.
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 www.ndtv.com 
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                                                                                                       Shots Heard As Bus Passengers Taken Hostage In Western Ukraine: Police
- Tuesday July 21, 2020
 - World News | Reuters
 
A man who said he was armed with weapons and explosives seized control of a bus in the western Ukrainian city of Lutsk on Tuesday and took about 20 people on board hostage, police said.
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 www.ndtv.com 
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                                                                                                       Brazil Bus Hijacker, Armed With Toy Gun, Shot Dead By Police
- Tuesday August 20, 2019
 - World News | Agence France-Presse
 
A hijacker armed with what turned out to be a toy gun was shot dead by police in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday after he held a busload of passengers hostage for several hours on a major bridge in peak-hour traffic.
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 www.ndtv.com 
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                                                                                                       US Man Kept Teen Captive For 3 Months After Seeing Her Get On School Bus
- Tuesday January 15, 2019
 - World News | Reuters
 
The Wisconsin man accused of kidnapping a 13-year-old girl, after killing her parents, and holding her hostage for months, sometimes under his bed, told police he had picked his victim at random, prosecutors said on Monday.
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 www.ndtv.com 
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                                                                                                       Taliban Shoot Dead 16 Bus Passengers In Northern Afghanistan
- Tuesday May 31, 2016
 - World News | Agence France-Presse
 
The Taliban on Tuesday pulled passengers from several buses in northern Afghanistan, killed at least 16 of them and took dozens of others hostage, officials said.
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 www.ndtv.com 
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                                                                                                       Philippine Police Killed Armed Assailant in Hostage Drama
- Thursday October 8, 2015
 - World News | Agence France-Presse
 
Philippine police shot and killed a man who took a fellow bus passenger hostage in central Manila Today, authorities said.
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 www.ndtv.com 
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Brothers of Cleveland kidnap suspect hope he 'rots in jail'
- Tuesday May 14, 2013
 - World News | Reuters
 
Two brothers of a former Cleveland school bus driver accused of holding three women hostage in his house for a decade described Ariel Castro as a "monster" and said they hope he "rots in jail" if convicted of kidnapping and raping the women.
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 www.ndtv.com 
 - 
                                            
USA town prays for gunman to release five-year-old
- Monday February 4, 2013
 - World News | Associated Press
 
This town of 2,400 nestled amid peanut farms and cotton fields has long relied on a strong Christian faith, a policy of "love thy neighbour," and the power of group prayer.
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 www.ndtv.com 
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Boy held hostage in Alabama bunker for third day, say officials
- Friday February 1, 2013
 - World News | Reuters
 
A hostage-taking by a gunman accused of fatally shooting a school bus driver and then disappearing with a young boy into an underground bunker entered its third night on Thursday in a rural corner of southeast Alabama.
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 www.ndtv.com 
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Alabama child hostage standoff in second day at bunker
- Thursday January 31, 2013
 - World News | Associated Press
 
A standoff in rural Alabama went into a second full day on Thursday as police surrounded an underground bunker where a retired truck driver was holding a 5-year-old hostage he grabbed off a school bus after shooting the driver dead.
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 www.ndtv.com 
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Mumbai gunman wanted to take on Raj Thackeray, claims father
- Tuesday November 2, 2010
 - Cities | mid-day.com
 
Two years after 25-year-old Rahul Raj was shot dead in a BEST bus at Andheri, his father Kundan Raj Prasad is a furious man seeking to quash all rumours surrounding his son's death.Bihar resident Rahul Raj had taken a BEST bus (no 332) hostage at Andheri on Oct 27, 2008. He was armed with a pistol and said he wanted to kill MNS chief Raj Thackeray....
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 www.ndtv.com