The 37-year-old man who kidnapped and “roughed up” a 4-year-old girl from her family’s campsite in Western Australia and kept her for 18 days has been sentenced to more than a decade in jail. A Western Australia court handed down a sentence of
At least 10 students were abducted by gunmen in northwest Nigeria, authorities said on Tuesday. Students from the Government Secondary School in Kaduna state were abducted during an attack Monday, however it was unclear exactly where they were kidnapped from, said Samuel
At least 22 people, including children, were abducted from three villages in northern Congo, local authorities said. Seven armed men dressed in white military uniforms, attacked towns in Ango territory in Bas-Uele province Tuesday, area administrator Mazale Lekabusia Marcellin told The Associated
Suspected gangs have kidnapped another Haitian journalist as colleagues demanded his release, a government office announced Wednesday. The journalist was identified by the Office of Citizen Protection as Jean Thony Lorthé, who works for Radio Vision 2000. Local media reported that Lorthé
A World Health Organization employee was abducted by unidentified assailants in northern Mali, the U.N. agency’s director-general said Tuesday. Dr. Mahamadou Diawara was kidnapped from his car in the town of Menaka on Monday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news
A British teenager is feared to have been abducted after she disappeared in the Caribbean more than two weeks ago. Delika White Lezama, 13, from Greenford, London, went missing during her trip to Trinidad with her mother and brother to visit her