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hostage
- Published: 29 Dec 2010 at 08.40
- Online news: Vocabulary
a person who is the prisoner of someone who threatens to kill them if they do not get what they want ตัวประกัน
The foreign ministry hopes Oman and Yemen can help the latest 27 Thai hostages seized in the Indian Ocean by Somali pirates, along with their cargo ship.
Juling taught at Rangae district's Ban Kujingluepa school before she was taken hostage and beaten by suspected militants.
Prime Minister Plaek Phibulsonggram (Phibun) was attending a ceremony aboard the Manhattan, a US government-owned dredger, at 3pm on June 29, 1951, when he was taken hostage by a group of naval officers led by Capt Manas Jarupa, commander of the Rattanakosin naval vessel.
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