An old man attacked three doctors visiting his home in the Japanese prefecture of Saitama near Tokyo, shooting one of them with a hunting gun and allegedly killing another that was held hostage for over 11 hours.
Police on Monday arrested a man on the charge of raping a 38-year-old woman after taking her as a hostage in Baneshwor, Kathmandu Metropolitan City-10.
A four-month-old child who was held hostage by a hospital in India after the mother failed to clear the hospital charge for his treatment was rescued on Sunday.
An outlawed Pakistani Islamist political group freed 11 policemen almost a day after taking them hostage in the eastern city of Lahore amid violent clashes with security forces, the country’s interior minister said on Monday.