Hostages in example sentence

Instead of giving the group what they wanted – the release of 53 militants imprisoned in Israel and four other countries – the Israeli Army launched Operation Thunderbolt, rescuing the hostages at Uganda’s Entebbe Airport.

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And it turned out that lots of the hostages died as a result of inhaling the gas.

The final toll of hostages is a little unclear, but it's certainly a few more than that, because other people died over the next few days.

During the Mumbai siege, terrorists were so dependent on technology that several witnesses reported that as the terrorists were shooting hostages with one hand, they were checking their mobile phone messages in the very other hand.

I also know that I'm very lucky compared to other hostages.

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