Sentence examples for the first kidnapping from inspiring English sources

After Foley was freed in the first kidnapping, his relatives joked about hiding his passport.

This was the first kidnapping of a foreigner in Gaza since Hamas, an Islamic militant group, took control of the territory in June 2007.

Witnesses said Beatrice Stockly's door was found open on Friday morning in Timbuktu, where she returned a year after the first kidnapping.

The official described the abduction as the first kidnapping of a Westerner in the city in recent memory, and he said it appeared to be modeled on the recent abductions in Peshawar.

In the first kidnapping in Sirte, in late December, a group of Coptic Christians was abducted at a fake checkpoint while trying to leave the city.

Twelve days after the first kidnapping, Pierre LaPorte was found strangled in the trunk of an FLQ car.

The second kidnapping wasn't nearly so brief.

The fourth kidnapping victim in Mali in 2009 was a U.K. citizen.

This is the second kidnapping of this kind in less than a month in the resort area of Kenya named Lamu.

Sotloff, 31, became the second kidnapped journalist to be beheaded by the group, which also murdered US journalist James Foley.

It was during this visit to Syria that the second kidnap occurred.