Most have been freed, but dozens have been killed, some in gruesome fashion at the hands of jihadist groups.

One of them had died in a peculiarly gruesome fashion and others were concerned the same might happen to them.

Another of the game's innovations was the Fatality, a finishing move executed against a beaten opponent to kill them in a gruesome fashion.

Even by the standards of a river that has known more than its share of death in gruesome and macabre fashions, the discovery was startling.

When a party of savages shows up with two women captives, she watches from hiding as they execute one in gruesome fashion.

The dead man's mouth was open in a gruesome fashion.

He'd be caught and tortured to death in a most gruesome fashion.

According to this account, it was Judas who ordered the mutilation of Nicanor and in a more gruesome fashion (15:30).

In 1863, a six-year-old girl was killed by Voodoo practitioners in a gruesome fashion.

He kills Roark slowly, in a gruesome fashion, and when the police see him he gets rinsed with sub-machine gun fire.