Sentence examples for kidnapping up from inspiring English sources

But life at the school came to an abrupt stop when, within days of exams in March 2014, Boko Haram fighters attacked the school, allegedly kidnapping up to 20 of the girls and taking them to the nearby Sambisa forest.

From the ruins of the Beltrán Leyva cartel, smashed last year, have sprung two new upstarts.In this section Stephen Harper and that elusive majority New names, old games Shallow graves, deepening alarm Smoked out ReprintsSome analysts say the plague of kidnapping (up fourfold compared with 2005) and extortion may show that government pressure is forcing some drug cartels to diversify.

On Saturday, gunmen in Anbar kidnapped up to 10 policemen at a checkpoint in Ramadi.

Secret "military" tribunals, indefinite detention without charge, torture, kidnapping, dressing up official press releases as news stories for complicit publishers - these all make the Watergate cover-up seem quaint.

When James drives them through a remote village, a van full of menacing characters pulls up alongside them, and Emily and Linda get kidnapped, ending up in a dungeon where bloodstained walls hint at the fate that awaits them.

The sheriff, Joe Arpaio, said the men had been kidnapped, tied up and shot.

Her children, 13 and 16 when she was kidnapped, grew up.

If we were shipwrecked on an island, we might not immediately be kidnapped, tied up and suspended from the ceiling of a creepy cave.