Terry Anderson, reporter held captive in Lebanon for years, dies aged 76

Terry Anderson was the longest held American hostage in Lebanon (AP)

American reporter Terry Anderson, who was held hostage for nearly seven years after being snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985, has died aged 76.

The Associated Press correspondent, who chronicled his abduction and torturous imprisonment by Islamic militants in his best-selling 1993 memoir Den Of Lions, died on Sunday at his home in Greenwood Lake, New York, said his daughter, Sulome Anderson.