Sentence examples for official hostage from inspiring English sources

Not finding her, he took another school official hostage and took her into the nursing classroom, Officer Watson said.

The intruder, who tried to take a consular official hostage, was shot by Turkish guards, lightly wounded in the leg, and was questioned by Turkish officials.

There were scant details on the prison killings on Sunday, and no explanation for why the victims were inside a prison van and had reportedly taken a prison official hostage.

In March, prisoners at the Juweideh prison, on the outskirts of Amman, took a prison official hostage and wounded several police officers in a 14-hour standoff that erupted when officials sought to transfer two members of Al Qaeda, prisoners who were scheduled for execution.

They shut down the borders of Gaza, invading the area and holding Palestinian officials hostage.

In April, inmates outside Caracas took 22 officials hostage, including the warden, protesting a tuberculosis outbreak.

In 1980, rebels seized control of the Dominican Republic's embassy, taking some 50 officials hostage.

In December, union members held several Shanghai Auto officials hostage for seven hours, accusing them of absconding with proprietary technology.

Only a few weeks earlier, a group of disabled former rebels had invaded the headquarters of the National Patriotic Party in Monrovia and taken several officials hostage.

Armed Bosnian Croat extremists took international officials hostage and threatened one of them with execution during riots on Friday, the country's top peace overseer said today.

They took 11 athletes and officials hostage and, over the course of a slow-motion 20-hour siege that riveted the world, killed them all.