Sentence examples for high kidnapping from inspiring English sources

While Bogotá is still safer than it was before its once heralded comeback, when it was plagued by car bombs and high kidnapping rates, news reports of grisly murders and robberies, including assaults on foreign tourists in hotels, are gripping residents again.

The Enugu State government sought to check the high kidnapping rates by passing a bill on February 2009 that made kidnapping by the use of a weapon a capital offence; the bill was passed by the Enugu House of Assembly unanimously.

Personal Guardian is being used by hundreds of thousands of people and has been particularly popular in high-risk places like Mexico, Venezuela, the Philippines, Nigeria and Jakarta - "anywhere you can think of with a high kidnap rate," Mr. Kao says.

The Times reports there are still up to 20 to 30 murders a month – enough of a drop that the metropolis is no longer among the top 20 most dangerous cities on Earth – though the once sky-high kidnapping rate has dwindled to virtually zero.

Venezuela is struggling with one of the world's highest kidnapping rates.

Violent crime has skyrocketed this decade in Venezuela, which has the highest kidnapping rate per capita in the world (2 per 100,000), according to the country's Interior Ministry.

After all, Colombia is in the midst of a brutal civil war, has one of the world's highest kidnapping rates and has one of the highest murder rates.

Some 2,000 police officers have been killed since 1994 in this country, which has a murder rate about 10 times higher than that of the United States and, with more than 3,000 abductions in 1999, the highest kidnapping rate in the world.

Colombia -- torn by violence with left-wing rebels and right-wing paramilitaries -- has the world's highest kidnapping rate, with some 3,700 people abducted last year, according to the police.

Papers find that households with greater exposure to violence in their own or surrounding areas were more likely to move to safer metropolitan areas (Engel and Ibáñez, 2007), while households in major cities with higher kidnapping risks from rebel groups were likely to send members abroad (Rodriguez and Villa, 2012).

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