Sentence examples for several hostage from inspiring English sources
On Wednesday, hundreds of Islamic militants attacked a paramilitary fort in the restive South Waziristan tribal region in northwest Pakistan, killing 22 soldiers and taking several hostage.
The image of Putin as a young thug is a recurrent motif in Gessen's absorbing portrait, which holds him responsible for a variety of shady dealings, from the unnecessarily deadly conclusions of several hostage crises to the tragic demise of a dissident by means of radiation poisoning.
Before working with FBI's international partners, Joyce was international section chief of the FBI's counterterrorism division, assistant special-agent-in-charge of the Washington Field Office, legal attache to Prague and assigned to several hostage rescue, SWAT, and investigative units in Dallas, Fort Worth and Miami.
Islamic State has released several hostage videos in recent months, including ones showing the beheadings of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and British aid workers Alan Henning and David Haines.
Russia had seen dozens of terrorist attacks every year of the past decade – suicide bombings, car bombs, and several hostage-takings – so many, in fact, that they drew public attention, even inside Russia, only when the attacks occurred outside the embattled regions of the north Caucasus.
"Please give us water," several hostages beseeched the visitors.
4.30pm: Several hostages at the Paris supermarket are also freed, AFP reports.
Since then, several hostages have been freed, and several more have been seized.
Gendarmes attempting to evacuate the supermarket found Lakdim holding several hostages.
Throughout the night, the police spoke with several hostages by cell phone.
Several hostages had been hiding there – in cupboards and false ceilings.
