Meanings of kidnapping attempt in English

His father was killed in a rebel kidnapping attempt in the 1980s.

I'm beginning to think that the so-called murder was just a botched kidnapping attempt.

He wasn't positive, but he suspected this was a kidnapping attempt rather than an assassination under way.

The FARC, which killed Uribe's father in a 1983 kidnapping attempt, issued no immediate response to the announcement.

The man's call foiled a kidnapping attempt by a group of Head Hunters, known as the Ghost Unit.

Gunmen shot and seriously wounded Al Arabiya's senior correspondent in Iraq during an apparent kidnapping attempt in Baghdad today.

She moved to the US after her older brother Rafael was murdered in 1998 during a botched kidnapping attempt.

Uribe has based his career on defeating the FARC rebels who killed his father in a kidnapping attempt in the 1980s.

One diplomat is being held hostage by suspected Sunni militants and another was killed this year when he resisted a kidnapping attempt.

Departing President Uribe has based his political career on fighting the leftist rebels who killed his father in a botched kidnapping attempt decades ago.

Armed men stabbed a Japanese diplomat in the Yemeni capital Sanaa today when he resisted a kidnapping attempt near his house, a security source said.

Uribe, whose father was killed in a 1983 FARC kidnapping attempt, is seen as a hero by many for his U.S.-backed crackdown on the rebels.

The Colombian leader was elected in 2002 on promises of smashing the FARC, which killed his father in a botched 1983 kidnapping attempt.

The bespectacled president, whose father was killed in a 1983 FARC kidnapping attempt, has made crushing the 44-year-old insurgency the cornerstone of his government.

WATCH: Kidnapping attempt of a child thwarted - thanks to a member of the public acting fast.

"He was killed trying to prevent a kidnapping attempt on Sylvia Nordquist and her daughter."