11.   French marines resumed control of a disputed bridge and a French soldier held by the Serbs escaped his captors unharmed.

12.   French marines resumed total control of a disputed bridge, and a French soldier held by the Serbs escaped his captors unharmed.

13.   In July, an American aid worker escaped his captors unharmed in western Somalia.

14.   Kwok escaped his captors after they left him alone and went off to play video games at an amusement arcade.

15.   Meanwhile, a French aid worker apparently abducted for ransom managed to escape his captors and reach the capital, Grozny, news reports said.

16.   Antara also quoted military officials in Timika as saying that the search for the remaining three hostages, believed to have already escaped their captors, was continuing.

17.   The woman escaped her captors the next morning and told her friends she had been raped.

18.   Twelve of the hostages escaped their captors in the following days as the military piled pressure on the group by blocking its way out of the area.