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Nigerian police announce that the 20 medical students who were kidnapped in Benue State, Nigeria, last week have been found without making any ransom payments.
2024-08-24

Police in Cameroon find the mutilated body of prominent journalist Martinez Zogo, who had been kidnapped by unknown assailants five days ago, amid increasing violence against reporters in the country.
2023-01-22

A jury in Michigan, United States, issues guilty verdicts for three men who aided in the foiled plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
2022-10-26

Four men who kidnapped a businessman and his son in Herat are shot dead by Taliban police during a gunfight. The bodies of the kidnappers have been hanged in public, in an apparent warning to others to not commit similar crimes.
2021-09-25

Three of the students kidnapped from Greenfield University in Kaduna, Nigeria, on Tuesday are found shot dead.
2021-04-23

A group of gunmen kidnap students from Greenfield University in Kaduna, Nigeria.
2021-04-20

A school pupil is killed and 27 others are kidnapped from their school in the early hours in Kagara, Niger State, Nigeria. Three staff members and 12 of their relatives are also abducted. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
2021-02-17

Katsina's governor Aminu Bello Masari says 344 pupils kidnapped from a boarding school in Kankara by Boko Haram on December 11 have been freed in Zamfara.
2020-12-17

The FBI announces that 13 men from militia group Wolverine Watchmen are charged in a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer at her vacation home.
2020-10-8

Taliban militants say they have kidnapped 27 local peace activists in Farah Province as they were traveling from Herat Province.
2019-12-25