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This is a list of notable hostage crises by date.
{|class="wikitable"
!Incident
!Location(s)
!Start
!Duration
!Number of<br>hostages
|-
|Gaza war hostage crisis
| Gaza envelope, Israel
|
| days <!--fix if template is changed -->
|250+
|-
|Nduga hostage crisis
| Nduga Regency, Highland Papua, Indonesia
|
| data-sort-value="141:00:00" | days
|9+
|-
|Leidseplein hostage crisis
| Leidseplein, Amsterdam, Netherlands
|
| data-sort-value="000:05:00" | 5 hours
|1
|-
|Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis
| Colleyville, Texas, United States
|
| data-sort-value="000:10:41" | 10 hours, 41 minutes
|4
|-
|2020 Lutsk hostage crisis
| Lutsk, Volyn Oblast, Ukraine
|
|data-sort-value="000:12:21"|12 hours, 21 minutes
|13
|-
|2020 Greenhills hostage crisis
| San Juan, Metro Manila, Philippines
|
|data-sort-value="000:09:00"|9 hours
|55
|-
|Carcassonne and Trèbes attack
| Trèbes, Aude, France
|
|data-sort-value="000:03:40"|3 hours, 40 minutes
|2
|-
|Siege of Marawi
| Marawi, Lanao del Sur, Philippines
|
|data-sort-value="152:00:00"|5 months
|1,770+
|-
|2017 Hanoi hostage crisis
| Hanoi, Vietnam
|
|data-sort-value="010:00:00"|10 days
|38
|-
|2016 Yerevan hostage crisis
| Yerevan, Armenia
|
|data-sort-value="015:00:00"|15 days
|9
|-
|July 2016 Dhaka attack
| Gulshan, Dhaka, Bangladesh
|
|data-sort-value="000:11:10"|11 hours, 10 minutes
|35+
|-
|Orlando nightclub shooting
| Orlando, Florida, United States
|
|data-sort-value="000:03:12"|3 hours, 12 minutes
|320
|-
|Kunduz-Takhar highway hostage crisis
| Kunduz Province, Afghanistan
|
|Unclear end date
|220+
|-
|2015 Bamako hotel attack
| Bamako, Mali
|
|data-sort-value="000:09:00"|9 hours
|170
|-
|November 2015 Paris attacks
| Paris, France
|
|data-sort-value="000:02:20"|2 hours, 20 minutes
|20
|-
|Samal Island hostage crisis
| Samal, Davao del Norte, Philippines
|
|data-sort-value="395:10:00"|13 months
|4
|-
|Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege
| Porte de Vincennes, Paris, France
|
|data-sort-value="000:04:30"|4 hours 30 minutes
|19
|-
|2014 Peshawar school massacre
| Army Public School Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan
| rowspan="2" |
|data-sort-value="000:07:00"|7 hours
|1,099
|-
|Lindt Cafe siege
| Martin Place, Sydney, Australia
|data-sort-value="000:17:00"|Approximately 17 hours
|18
|-
|2014 Stockton bank robbery
| Stockton, California and Lodi, California, United States
|
|data-sort-value="000:01:00"|Approximately 1 hour
|3
|-
|2014 Moscow school shooting
| Moscow, Russia
|
|data-sort-value="000:02:00"|Approximately 2 hours
|29
|-
|Westgate shopping mall attack
| Nairobi, Kenya
|
|data-sort-value="003:00:00"|3 days
|
|-
|Zamboanga City crisis
| Zamboanga City, Philippines
|
|data-sort-value="019:00:00"|19 days
|
|-
|2013 Islamabad hostage crisis
| Islamabad, Pakistan
|
|data-sort-value="000:06:00"|6 hours
|
|-
|2013 Hialeah shooting
| Hialeah, Florida
|
|data-sort-value="000:03:00"|Approximately 3 hours
|
|-
|2013 Alabama bunker hostage crisis
| Midland City, Alabama
|
|data-sort-value="006:00:00"|6 days
|
|-
|In Amenas hostage crisis
| In Amenas, Algeria
|
|data-sort-value="003:00:00"|3 days
|
|-
|2012 Bain murder-kidnappings
| Whiteville, Tennessee and Alpine, Mississippi, United States
|
|data-sort-value="013:00:00"|13 days
|
|-
|2011 Muar kindergarten hostage crisis
| Muar, Johor, Malaysia
|
|data-sort-value="000:06:00"|6 hours
|30
|-
|2011 Hectorville siege
| Hectorville, South Australia, Australia
|
|data-sort-value="000:08:00"|8 hours
|
|-
|Panama City school board shootings
| Panama City, Florida, United States
|
|Unknown
|
|-
|2010 Baghdad church massacre
| Baghdad, Iraq
|
|data-sort-value="000:04:00"|About 4 hours
|
|-
|2010 Discovery headquarters hostage crisis
| Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
|
|data-sort-value="000:05:00"|About 5 hours
|
|-
|Manila hostage crisis
| Manila, Philippines
|
|data-sort-value="000:10:30"|10 hours 30 mins
|
|-
|2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre
| rowspan="2" | Lahore, Pakistan
|
|data-sort-value="000:03:00"|Some hours
|
|-
|October 2009 Lahore attacks
|
|data-sort-value="000:01:30"|1 hour 30 mins
|
|-
|2009 Pakistan Army General Headquarters attack
| Rawalpindi, Pakistan
|
|data-sort-value="001:00:00" |1 day
|
|-
|2009 Yemen hostage crisis
| Saada Governorate, Yemen
|
|11 months
|9
|-
|Binghamton shooting
| Binghamton, New York, United States
|
|data-sort-value="001:00:00" |1 day
|
|-
|2009 Lahore police academy attack
| Lahore, Pakistan
|
|data-sort-value="000:03:00"|Some hours
|
|-
|Bangladesh Rifles revolt
| Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh
|
|data-sort-value="002:00:00"|2 days
|
|-
|2008 Mumbai attacks
| Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
|
|data-sort-value="003:00:00"|3 days
|
|-
|Eloá Pimentel hostage crisis
| Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil
|
|data-sort-value="004:00:00"|4 days
|
|-
|Espírito Santo Bank of Campolide robbery
| Lisbon, Portugal
|
|data-sort-value="000:08:00"|8 hours
|
|-
|South Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan
| Ghazni Province, Afghanistan
|
|data-sort-value="042:00:00"|42 days
|
|-
|Siege of Lal Masjid
| Islamabad, Pakistan
|
|data-sort-value="009:00:00"|9 days
|
|-
|Johnson Space Center shooting
| Houston, Texas, United States
|
|data-sort-value="000:03:00"|About 3 hours
|
|-
|West Nickel Mines School shooting
| Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
|
|data-sort-value="000:03:00"|Some hours
|
|-
|Platte Canyon High School hostage crisis
| Bailey, Colorado, United States
|
|data-sort-value="000:04:00"|About 4 hours
|
|-
|Seattle Jewish Federation shooting
| Seattle, Washington, United States
|
|data-sort-value="000:00:15"|Approximately 15 minutes
|
|-
|Chrobog family kidnapping
| Yemen
|
|data-sort-value="003:00:00"|3 days
|
|-
|2005 raid on Nalchik
| Nalchik, Russia
|
|data-sort-value="000:03:00"|Some hours
|
|-
|Ennepetal hostage taking
| Ennepetal, Germany
|
|data-sort-value="000:06:00"|About 6 hours
|
|-
|Beslan school siege
| Beslan, Russia
|
|data-sort-value="003:00:00"|3 days
|
|-
|2004 Khobar massacre
| Khobar, Saudi Arabia
|
|data-sort-value="001:01:00"|25 hours
|
|-
|2003 Sahara hostage crisis
| Algeria
|
|data-sort-value="208:00:00"|208 days
|
|-
|Moscow theater hostage crisis
| Moscow, Russia
|
|data-sort-value="002:12:00"|2½ days
|
|-
|Akshardham Temple attack
| Gandhinagar, India
|
|data-sort-value="002:00:00"|2 days
|
|-
|Dos Palmas kidnappings
| Palawan, Philippines
|
|Varied periods
|
|-
|Operation Barras
| Sierra Leone
|
|data-sort-value="017:00:00"|17 days
|
|-
|Bus 174 hostage crisis
| Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
|
|data-sort-value="000:03:00"|Some hours
|
|-
|Sauk Siege
| Kuala Kangsar, Perak, Malaysia
|
|data-sort-value="003:00:00"|3 days
|
|-
| Wasserbillig crèche hostage crisis
| Wasserbillig, Luxembourg
|
| 28 hours
| 52
|-
|2000 Fijian coup d'état
| Suva, Fiji
|
|data-sort-value="056:00:00"|56 days
|
|-
|Nishi-Tetsu bus hijacking
|Fukuoka, Yamaguchi, and Hiroshima Prefectures, Japan
|3–4 May 2000
|15 hours
|21
|-
|2000 Sipadan kidnappings
| Sipadan, Malaysia, Jolo, Philippines
|
|Varied periods
|
|-
|Joseph Palczynski standoff
| Dundalk, Maryland, United States
|
|data-sort-value="004:00:00"|4 days
|
|-
|Indian Airlines Flight 814
| Amritsar, India, Dubai, UAE, Lahore, Pakistan, Kandahar, Afghanistan
|
|data-sort-value="008:00:00"|8 days
|190
|-
|1998 Cúa hostage crisis
| Cúa, Venezuela
|
|data-sort-value="000:07:00"|7 hours
|
|-
|Japanese embassy hostage crisis
| Lima, Peru
|
|data-sort-value="126:00:00"|126 days
|
|-
|
| Caracas, Venezuela
|
|data-sort-value="000:20:00"|20 hours
|
|-
|1996 Honolulu hostage crisis
| Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
|
|data-sort-value="000:07:00"|7 hours
|
|-
|Black Sea hostage crisis
| Trabzon, Turkey, Sochi, Russia
|
|data-sort-value="004:00:00"|4 days
|
|-
|Kizlyar–Pervomayskoye hostage crisis
| Kizlyar and Pervomayskoye, Russia
|
|data-sort-value="009:00:00"|9 days
|
|-
|Cologne hostage crisis
| Cologne, Germany
|28 July 1995
|7 hours
|24
|-
|1995 kidnapping of western tourists in Kashmir
| Pahalgam, India
|
|Unknown
|
|-
|
| Caracas, Venezuela
|
|data-sort-value="000:06:00"|6 hours
|
|-
|Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis
| Budyonnovsk, Russia
|
|data-sort-value="005:00:00"|5 days
|
|-
|1995 Salvadoran legislature hostage crisis
| San Salvador, El Salvador
|
|data-sort-value="002:00:00"|2 days
|~2,500
|-
|Air France Flight 8969
| Algiers, Algeria, Marseille, France
|
|data-sort-value="003:00:00"|3 days
|232
|-
|1994 kidnappings of western tourists in India
| New Delhi, India
|
|data-sort-value="012:00:00"|12 days
|4
|-
|1994 Salvadoran legislature hostage crisis
| San Salvador, El Salvador
|
|data-sort-value="002:00:00"|2 days
|~200
|-
|Torp hostage crisis
| Larvik and Sandefjord, Norway
|
|data-sort-value="002:00:00"|2 days
|
|-
|Gresham cat hostage taking incident
| Gresham, Oregon, United States
|
|Unknown
|1 cat
|-
|Salt Lake City Public Library hostage incident
| Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
|
|data-sort-value="000:06:00"|6 hours
|
|-
|1993 Jolimont Centre siege
| Canberra, Australia
|
|data-sort-value="000:02:00"|2 hours
|
|-
|Neuilly kindergarten hostage crisis
| Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
|
|2 days
|22
|-
|Supreme Court of Justice hostage crisis
| San José, Costa Rica
|
| data-sort-value="004:00:00" |4 days
|
|-
|1993 Cangai siege
| Cangai, New South Wales, Australia
|
|data-sort-value="001:02:00"|26 hours
|
|-
|East Carter High School shooting
| Grayson, Kentucky, United States
|
|data-sort-value="000:00:16"|16 minutes
|
|-
|Lindhurst High School shooting
| Olivehurst, California, United States
|
|data-sort-value="000:08:00"|8 hours
|
|-
|Alta View Hospital hostage incident
| Sandy, Utah, United States
|
|data-sort-value="000:18:00"|18 hours
|
|-
|1991 Sacramento hostage crisis
| Sacramento, California, United States
|
|data-sort-value="000:08:00"|About 8 hours
|41
|-
|Singapore Airlines Flight 117
| Singapore
|
|data-sort-value="000:12:00"|12 hours
|125
|-
|Henry's Pub hostage incident
| Berkeley, California, United States
|
|data-sort-value="000:07:00"|7 hours
|33
|-
|1990 Hotel Delfino siege
| Tuguegarao, Cagayan, Philippines
|
|Unknown
|
|-
|1989 Davao hostage crisis
| Davao City, Philippines
|
|data-sort-value="003:00:00"|3 days
|
|-
|Camp Cawa-Cawa siege
| Zamboanga City, Philippines
|
|data-sort-value="000:12:00"|12 hours
|
|-
|Loveland River House incident
| Loveland, Colorado, United States
|
|data-sort-value="000:02:00"|2 hours
|
|-
|Papal visit hostage crisis
| Maseru, Lesotho
|
|data-sort-value="001:00:00"|1 day
|
|-
|Gladbeck hostage crisis
| Gladbeck, Bremen, Sottrum, and Cologne, West Germany, Oldenzaal, Netherlands
|
|data-sort-value="003:00:00"|3 days
|29
|-
|Ouvéa cave hostage taking
| Ouvéa, New Caledonia
|
|data-sort-value="014:00:00"|14 days
|
|-
|Kuwait Airways Flight 422
| Mashhad, Iran, Larnaca, Cyprus, Algiers, Algeria
|
|data-sort-value="015:00:00"|15 days
|110
|-
|Pudu prison siege
| Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
|
|data-sort-value="006:00:00"|6 days
|
|-
|Pan Am Flight 73
| Karachi, Pakistan
|
|data-sort-value="001:00:00"|1 day
|379
|-
|Mikkeli hostage crisis
| Helsinki and Mikkeli, Finland
|
|data-sort-value="000:14:10"|14 hours 10 mins
|
|-
|Oulu plane hijacking 1986
| Oulu, Finland
|
|data-sort-value="000:02:45"|2 hours 45 mins
|
|-
|Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis
| Cokeville, Wyoming, United States
|
|data-sort-value="000:02:30"|2½ hours
|
|-
|EgyptAir Flight 648
| Luqa, Malta
|
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="002:00:00" |2 days
|98
|-
|Palace of Justice siege
| Bogotá, Colombia
|
|
|-
|Achille Lauro hijacking
| Alexandria and Port Said, Egypt
|
|data-sort-value="002:00:00"|2 days
|97+
|-
|Trans World Airlines Flight 847
| Beirut, Lebanon, Algiers, Algeria
|
|data-sort-value="016:00:00"|16 days
|155
|-
|Bus 300 affair
| Tel Aviv and Ashkelon, Israel
|
|data-sort-value="002:00:00"|2 days
|
|-
|1984 Libyan hostage incident
| Tripoli, Libya
|
|data-sort-value="294:00:00"|9 months
|
|-
|1984 Sydney bank robbery
| Sydney, Australia
|
|data-sort-value="000:06:00"|6 hours
|
|-
|Abduction of western tourists in Matabeleland
| Lupane, Zimbabwe
|
|Unknown
|
|-
|Lebanon hostage crisis
| Beirut, Lebanon
|
|Varied periods
|
|-
|Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 206
| Bangkok, Thailand
|
|data-sort-value="003:00:00"|3 days
|53
|-
|Iranian Embassy siege
| London, United Kingdom
|
|data-sort-value="006:00:00"|6 days
|
|-
|Dominican embassy siege
| Bogotá, Colombia
|
|data-sort-value="061:00:00"|61 days
|
|-
|Grand Mosque seizure
| Mecca, Saudi Arabia
|
|data-sort-value="014:00:00"|14 days
|50,000+
|-
|Iran hostage crisis
| Tehran, Iran
|
|data-sort-value="444:00:00"|444 days
|53
|-
|Mitsubishi Bank hostage incident
| Osaka, Japan
|
|data-sort-value="002:00:00"|2 days
|
|-
|Finnair Flight 405
| Helsinki, Finland
|
|data-sort-value="000:19:00"|19 hours
|
|-
|1978 Assen province hall hostage crisis
| Assen, Netherlands
|
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="001:00:00" |1 day
|71
|-
|Cyprus Airways hijacking
| Larnaca, Cyprus
|
|
|-
|Lufthansa Flight 181
| Larnaca, Cyprus, Dubai, UAE, Aden, South Yemen, Mogadishu, Somalia
|
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="005:00:00" |5 days
|
|-
|Japan Air Lines Flight 472
| Dhaka, Bangladesh, Kuwait City, Kuwait, Damascus, Syria
|
|
|-
|1977 De Punt train hijacking
| De Punt, Netherlands
| rowspan="2" |
| data-sort-value="020:00:00" |20 days
|54
|-
|1977 Bovensmilde school hostage crisis
| Bovensmilde, Netherlands
|4 days
|110
|-
|1977 Hanafi siege
| Washington, D.C., United States
|
|data-sort-value="001:15:00"|39 hours
|
|-
|TWA Flight 355
| Montreal and Gander, Canada, Keflavík, Iceland, Paris, France
|
|data-sort-value="002:00:00"|2 days
|
|-
|Operation Entebbe
| Benghazi, Libya, Entebbe, Uganda
|
|data-sort-value="008:00:00"|8 days
|258
|-
|Balcombe Street siege
| London, United Kingdom
|
|data-sort-value="005:00:00"|5 days
|
|-
|OPEC siege
| Vienna, Austria, Algiers, Algeria, Tripoli, Libya
|
|data-sort-value="003:00:00"|3 days
|
|-
|1975 Indonesian consulate hostage crisis
| Amsterdam, Netherlands
|
|data-sort-value="015:00:00"|15 days
|42
|-
|Wijster kidnapping
| Wijster, Netherlands
|
|data-sort-value="012:00:00"|12 days
|75
|-
|Philippine Airlines Flight 111
| Manila, Philippines
|
|data-sort-value="000:01:00"|1 hour
|
|-
|Spaghetti House siege
| London, United Kingdom
|
|data-sort-value="006:00:00"|6 days
|6
|-
|1975 AIA building hostage crisis
| Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
|
|data-sort-value="005:00:00"|5 days
|
|-
|Israeli consulate hostage crisis
| Johannesburg, South Africa
|
|data-sort-value="000:19:00"|19 hours
|
|-
|West German Embassy siege in Stockholm
| Stockholm, Sweden
|
|data-sort-value="000:12:00"|12 hours
|
|-
|1974 French Embassy attack in The Hague
| The Hague, Netherlands
|
|data-sort-value="004:00:00"|4 days
|11
|-
|1974 Huntsville Prison siege
| Huntsville, Texas, United States
|
|data-sort-value="011:00:00"|11 days
|
|-
|Ma'alot massacre
| Ma'alot, Israel
|
|data-sort-value="002:00:00"|2 days
|
|-
|Claustre Affair
| Bardaï, Chad
|
|data-sort-value="1018:00:00"|1018 days
|4
|-
|Laju incident
| Singapore
|
|data-sort-value="008:00:00"|8 days
|
|-
|Norrmalmstorg robbery
| Stockholm, Sweden
|
|data-sort-value="005:00:00"|5 days
|
|-
|Roman Catholic mission hostage crisis
| Centenary, Rhodesia
|
| rowspan="2" |Unknown
|
|-
|1973 CIBC bank robbery
| Kenora, Ontario, Canada
|
|
|-
|Attack on the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum
| Khartoum, Sudan
|
|data-sort-value="002:12:00"|2½ days
|
|-
|1973 Brooklyn hostage crisis
| New York City, New York, United States
|
|data-sort-value="003:00:00"|3 days
|
|-
|
| Balassagyarmat, Hungary
|
|data-sort-value="006:00:00"|6 days
|
|-
|Lufthansa Flight 615
| Zagreb, Yugoslavia
|
|data-sort-value="000:15:00"|15 hours
|
|-
|Munich massacre
| Munich, West Germany
|
|data-sort-value="000:21:00"|21 hours
|
|-
|Lod Airport massacre
| rowspan="2" | Lod, Israel
|
|data-sort-value="000:00:24"|24 minutes
|
|-
|Sabena Flight 572
|
|data-sort-value="001:00:00"|1 day
|
|-
|Lufthansa Flight 649
| Aden, South Yemen
|
|data-sort-value="002:00:00"|2 days
|
|-
|Asama-Sansō incident
| Karuizawa, Japan
|
|data-sort-value="009:00:00"|9 days
|
|-
|Northwest Orient Flight 305
| Washington and Oregon, United States
|
|data-sort-value="000:04:00"|4 hours
|
|-
|October Crisis
| Quebec, Canada
|
|data-sort-value="060:00:00"|60 days
|
|-
|Dawson's Field hijackings
| Zarka, Jordan
|
|data-sort-value="008:00:00"|8 days
|
|-
|Marin County Civic Center attacks
| San Rafael, California, United States
|
|data-sort-value="000:02:00"|2 hours
|
|-
|Operation Dragon Rouge
| Stanleyville, Congo-Léopoldville
|
|data-sort-value="025:00:00"|20–30 days
|
|-
|Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 648 hijacking
| Stanley, Falkland Islands
|
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="002:00:00" |2 days
|
|-
|Siege of Sidney Street
| London, United Kingdom
|
|
|-
|Battle of Ballingarry
| Ballingarry, Ireland, United Kingdom
|
|data-sort-value="001:00:00"|1 day
|
|-
|Froberg mutiny
| Fort Ricasoli, Malta
|
|data-sort-value="006:00:00"|6 days
|
|}
See also
- List of non-international armed conflicts
- List of proxy wars
- List of terrorist incidents
- List of wars: 2003–present