Global Kidnapping Tracker

• Police arrested Pankaj Bhushan Kumar and Navneet Singh, each with ₹25,000 bounties, in the abduction and extortion of antique dealer Sudarshan...

Security forces in Al-Rusayris detained three men at dawn on October 19, 2026, with reports indicating targeting due to kinship or affiliation rather...

Kwara police arrested Abubakar Usman on October 11 at Jebba Cattle Market, linking him to kidnapping incidents in Oke-Ode and Oro-Ago plus vigilante...

Volunteers searching for missing 12-year-old chess player Aglaya in Yekaterinburg say kidnapping cannot be ruled out, though they note she may have fled the city after a tense tournament on October 18. The search party doubts she left on her own.

Lena Patyaeva received a 150,000-rouble fine for staging a solo protest in Grozny marking the third anniversary of Seda Suleymanova’s 2023 abduction....

A new report details how human rights defenders from East Africa continue facing surveillance, intimidation and in grave cases abduction or torture...

Two forcible abductions of men were reported this morning in Catalonia, with markedly different results.

• Santa Coloma de Gramenet: Victim remains...

• Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies are seeking the public’s help to find 11-year-old Aaron Wheeler, last seen at about 10 a.m. Saturday riding a...

A kidnapped Catholic priest and three others were rescued in Benue. The article provides no details on the rescue operation, timing, perpetrators, or identities involved.

China's embassy first flagged kidnapping risks for travelers in April, urging caution with transport and free rides. The latest Friday alert repeats...

Police allege four suspects, including a ringleader, abducted a woman at gunpoint in Tirap village after her family rejected a marriage proposal.
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A real estate dispute triggered the October 5 abduction of jeweller K. Srinivas Rao near Golnaka flyover.

• A 12-member gang impersonated police,...

South Africa recorded 17 kidnapping cases tied to human trafficking from January to March 2026, down from 67 in the previous quarter. Nine occurred in...

Reports of the same kidnapping diverge sharply on key facts.

• Victim status: Article 1 describes 20 police officers from multiple districts...

Father Otache was abducted from St. Margaret Parish in Nigeria, where bandits continue mass kidnappings for ransom. Archbishop Michael Ekwoy Apochi...

Two suspects in the February 2024 Obninsk kidnapping fled abroad but were extradited to Russia at the request of Kaluga investigators after...

A 1.5-month-old was allegedly abducted at GTB Hospital when his mother left him for five minutes with a woman in a black burqa she had just met, only...

President Bola Tinubu has directed security agencies to intensify rescues of all kidnapped victims and dismantle terrorist and bandit camps across Nigeria. Defence Minister Christopher Musa announced the orders following their meeting in Abuja.

Kherson prosecutors claim Russian forces abducted 2,053 civilians since the invasion, with 49 dying in captivity from torture or denied care and four...

Bozeman police responding to a runaway juvenile report located the child with an adult male at his residence, resulting in charges of aggravated...