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Kidnapped on the way home from school Yokota’s daughter Megumi is perhaps one of the most well-known of Japan’s abductees.—Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025 Families of hostages plan to continue public protests, calling for stronger action to secure the return of all abductees.—James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025 Alon Ohel, a twenty-four-year-old pianist who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, was kept in a tunnel beneath Gaza, along with three other abductees.—Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025 Seven of the freed hostages have been returned to Israel, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a volunteer organization focused on the safe return of the abductees in Gaza.—Michael Collins, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for abductee
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