List of hostage crises.html



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This is a list of hostage crises by date.

Crisis	Place	Start	Duration
November 2008 Mumbai attacks	Mumbai, Maharashtra, India	02008-11-26 26 November 2008	3 days
Eloá Pimentel hostage crisis	Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil	02008-10-13 13 October 2008	4 days
Kidnapping of Wolfgang Ebner and Andrea Kloiber	En route from Tunisia to Algeria to a remote area of Mali	02008-02-22 22 February 2008	252 days
Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis	Rochester, New Hampshire, United States	02007-11-30 30 November 2007	About 5 hours
South Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan	En route from Kandahar to Kabul, Afghanistan	02007-07-19 19 July 2007	42 days
Johnson Space Center shooting	Houston, Texas, United States	02007-04-20 20 April 2007	About 3 hours
Amish school shooting	Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States	02006-10-02 2 October 2006	Some hours
Platte Canyon High School shooting	Bailey, Colorado, United States	02006-09-27 27 September 2006	About 4 hours
Chrobog family kidnapping	Yemen	02005-12-28 28 December 2005	3 days
October 2005 Nalchik attack	Nalchik, Russia	02005-10-13 13 October 2005	Some hours
Ennepetal hostage taking	Ennepetal, Germany	02005-04-12 12 April 2005	About 6 hours
Beslan school hostage crisis	Beslan, Russia	02004-09-01 1 September 2004	3 days
Sahara hostage crisis	Algeria	02003-01-22 22 January 2003	208 days
Moscow theater hostage crisis	Moscow, Russia	02002-10-23 23 October 2002	2 1/2 days
Akshardham Temple attack	Gujarat, India	02002-09-24 24 September 2002	2 days
Bus 174 hostage taking	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	02000-06-12 12 June 2000	Some hours
Fiji coup of 2000	Suva, Fiji	02000-05-19 19 May 2000	56 days
Standoff of Joseph C. Palczynski	Dundalk, Maryland	02000-03-17 17 March 2000	4 days
Indian Airlines Flight 814	Kathmandu, Nepal	01999-12-24 24 December 1999	8 days
Japanese embassy hostage crisis	Lima, Peru	01996-12-17 17 December 1996	126 days
Black Sea hostage crisis	En route from Trabzon, Turkey to Sochi, Russia	01996-01-16 16 January 1996	4 days
1995 kidnapping of western tourists in Jammu and Kashmir	Pahalgam, India	01995-07-04 4 July 1995	Unknown
Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis	Budyonnovsk, Russia	01995-06-14 14 June 1995	2 days
Air France Flight 8969	Algiers, Algeria; Marseilles, France	01994-12-24 24 December 1994	3 days
Public Library Hostage Incident	Salt Lake City, Utah, United States	01994-03-07 7 March 1994	6 hours
Neuilly kindergarten hostage crisis	Neuilly-sur-Seine, France	01993-05-13 13 May 1993	Some hours
Supreme Court of Justice hostage crisis	San José, Costa Rica	01993-04-26 26 April 1993	4 days
Alta View Hospital hostage incident	Sandy, Utah, United States	01991-09-20 20 September 1991	18 hours
1991 Sacramento hostage crisis	Sacramento, California, United States	01991-04-04 4 April 1991	About 8 hours
Singapore Airlines Flight 117	Singapore	01991-03-26 26 March 1991	1/2 day
Loveland River House Incident	Loveland, Colorado, United States	01989-01-03 3 January 1989	2 hours
Gladbeck hostage crisis	Gladbeck, Germany; the Netherlands; Cologne, Germany	01988-08-16 16 August 1988	3 days
Ouvéa cave hostage crisis	Ouvéa, France	01988-04-22 22 April 1988	14 days
Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis	Cokeville, Wyoming, United States	01986-05-16 16 May 1986	2 1/2 hours
Palace of Justice siege	Bogotá, Colombia	01985-11-06 6 November 1985	2 days
Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking	En route from Alexandria to Port Said, Egypt	01985-10-07 7 October 1985	2 days
TWA Flight 847	En route from Athens, Greece to Rome, Italy	01985-06-14 14 June 1985	16 days
Kav 300 affair	En route from Tel-Aviv, Israel to Ashqelon, Israel	01984-04-12 12 April 1984	2 days
Iranian Embassy Siege	London, United Kingdom	01980-04-30 30 April 1980	6 days
Dominican embassy siege	Bogotá, Colombia	01980-02-27 27 February 1980	61 days
Grand Mosque Seizure	Mecca, Saudi Arabia	01979-11-02 2 November 1979	14 days
Iran hostage crisis	Tehran, Iran	01979-11-04 4 November 1979	444 days
Mitsubishi Bank Hostage incident‎	Osaka, Japan	01979-01-26 26 January 1979	2 days
1978 Dutch province hall hostage crisis	Assen, Netherlands	01978-03-13 13 March 1978	1 day
Lufthansa Flight 181 (Landshut hijacking)	Mogadishu, Somalia	01977-10-13 13 October 1977	5 days
Japan Airlines Flight 472 hijacking	En route from Mumbai, India to Tokyo, Japan	01977-09-28 28 September 1977	5 days
Train hijack	De Punt, Netherlands	01977-05-23 23 May 1977	20 days
Elementary school hostage	Bovensmilde, Netherlands	01977-05-23 23 May 1977	20 days
Entebbe Airport hostage crisis	Entebbe Airport, Uganda	01976-06-27 27 June 1976	8 days
Balcombe Street Siege	London, United Kingdom	01975-12-06 6 December 1975	5 days
Raid on the OPEC headquarters	Vienna, Austria, hostages were taken to Algiers, Algeria and Tripoli, Libya	01975-12-21 21 December 1975	3 days
Occupation of the Indonesian consulate	Amsterdam, Netherlands	01975-12-04 4 December 1975	15 days
Train hijack	Wijster, Netherlands	01975-12-02 2 December 1975	12 days
Spaghetti House siege	London, United Kingdom	01975-09-28 28 September 1975	6 days
West German embassy siege	Stockholm, Sweden	01975-04-24 24 April 1975	12 hours
Ma'alot massacre	Ma'alot, Israel	01974-05-15 15 May 1974	2 days
Laju incident	Singapore	01974-01-31 31 January 1974	8 days
Norrmalmstorg robbery	Stockholm, Sweden	01973-08-23 23 August 1973	5 days
1973 Khartoum diplomatic assassinations	Khartoum, Sudan	01973-03-01 1 March 1973	2 1/2 days
Munich massacre	Munich, Germany	01972-09-05 5 September 1972	21 hours
Hijacking of Sabena Flight 572	Lod, Israel	01972-05-08 8 May 1972	One day
October Crisis	Quebec, Canada	01970-10-05 5 October 1970	60 days