If the claim was not met, all 53 hostages would be killed.

A fourth hostage taken at the same time had been killed.

At this point, two hostages had been killed, and the room was covered with blood.

One hostage was killed by a terrorist during the attack.

They later released her out of concern that another hostage would be killed.

The two hostages were killed before or during the rescue attempt.

Later, all the hostages were killed during a police raid meant to free them.

There were many others who assumed that the hostages must already have been killed.

Basically hostages, a representative of each race would be killed if their people start a war.

The hostage was killed before we were on the scene.