kidnap
Example Sentences
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Some Nigerians welcomed U.S. intervention, citing their own government’s failure to make headway against terrorism and banditry since the kidnapping of the Chibok girls more than a decade ago.
However, the Catholic Church said on Thursday that about 35 students who either escaped or had not been abducted in the first place did not show up for a headcount immediately after the kidnapping.
From Barron's
Families of those killed or kidnapped are leading the protests to demand an independent investigation.
Nigeria's federal government described the latest release as a "moment of triumph and relief", after one of the country's worst mass kidnappings.
From BBC
Washington has accused Venezuela of using oil money to fund drug-related crime, while Venezuela has described the tanker seizures as "theft and kidnapping".
From BBC
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