11.   Kidnappers have taken hundreds of people hostage in Chechnya and surrounding areas, usually for ransom, since the war ended.

12.   Kidnappers apparently took her body back to the hospital and left it there after she died, they said.

13.   Last month, the kidnappers reportedly took two paramedics from a village clinic to treat the hostages.

14.   Masked, heavily armed kidnappers took Munoz Romero from his office in a guarded office park in western San Juan.

15.   She delivered the ransom seven times but the kidnappers did not take the money at the designated places, police said.

16.   Sources within the tribe who spoke on condition of anonymity said the kidnappers had taken Suprowicz to a neutral party late Saturday afternoon with the intent of releasing him.

17.   The driver was beaten and forced under the car while the kidnappers took Medina away.

18.   The kidnapper took the policeman and another Interior Ministry officer hostage near the village of Veseloye at midday on Monday.

19.   The kidnappers have traditionally taken their hostages into the forests that run along the Indus River.

20.   The kidnappers took Ramirez to lunch Wednesday while they decided how to get more money out of him, he said.