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WNY Journalist Held Captive for Seven Years Passes Away

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Journalist Terry Anderson, who was raised in Batavia and spent almost seven years as a hostage in Lebanon in the 1980s and 90s – has died.

The Associated Press correspondent became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was dragged from his can by Hezbollah while he was working in Lebanon. Anderson wrote a memoir of his abduction and imprisonment titled “Den of Lions.” The Associated Press reports he died Sunday at his home in Greenwood Lake, New York, in Orange County.

Terry Anderson was 76 years old.

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