As reported by Thisdaylive.com, one Nigerian was killed while four Thai nationals were yesterday abducted in Buguma, headquarters of Asari-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State when gunmen attacked the Israeli-run Buguma Mega Fish Farm located in the town. Also yesterday, the Rivers Peoples’ Forum restated its call for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike over his comments in Port Harcourt last weekend during which he allegedly threatened to unleash violence on the state. Read article
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According to shanghaidaily.com, a U.S. businessman was kidnapped early Friday in southern Honduras, police reported. Peter Jackson, 68, is a well-known hotelier in northern San Pedro Sula, as well as the owner of Deli shrimp farms in Choluteca, in the southern part of the Central American country. He was reportedly nabbed after leaving his hotel […]
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Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Polish photojournalist Marcin Suder, who was kidnapped by a dozen masked gunmen at around 11 a.m. yesterday in Saraqeb, in the northwestern province of Idlib. A freelancer who works for the Corbis agency, the Polish photo-agency Studio Melon and other outlets, Suder was abducted […]
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According to stuff.co.nz, an expatriate New Zealander is feared dead after he was abducted at gunpoint on a bridge near the border of Victoria and South Australia. Gordon Tearonui Hamm was dragged from a car driven by a woman friend and assaulted by two men after the car was brought to a halt by two […]
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As reported by Nna-leb.gov.lb, Syrian expat Hamid Ramadan reported his 15 year old son missing at Zefta police station near Beirut. The father told police that his son Khaldun Ramadan who works as a farmer in Al-Hajje town, did not return home since Monday. Hamid told police investigators that he received a phone call from […]
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Al Jazeera reports that armed men have seized an employee of the Iranian embassy in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, police said. In Tehran, foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi told the ISNA news agency on Sunday that “one of the administrative staff members of the Iranian Embassy in Yemen has been abducted by an unknown group.” “This […]
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As reported by Timesofindia.com, Somali pirates struck again on Sunday by hijacking a Turkish-owned oil tanker off the western Africa coast. The Malta-flagged ship, MV Cotton, with its crew of 20 Indian sailors, was attacked near Port Gentil in Gabon. A Turkish foreign ministry official confirmed the incident said a foreign news agency. Six of […]
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Reuters reports that a relative of Zersenay Tadese, Eritrea’s first-ever Olympic medallist, is being held captive in Egypt’s Sinai by traffickers who are seeking a $44,000 ransom, the athlete said via Twitter on Saturday. Since 2009, human traffickers have snatched thousands of Eritrean refugees from camps in eastern Sudan for ransom, sexual exploitation, forced marriage […]
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The Baltimore Sun reports that gunmen have kidnapped a Lebanese manager from a construction company in southern Nigeria after an attack in which three soldiers were wounded, the military and a security source said. The man was seized from the premises of the Nigerian-owned but Lebanese-run construction firm Setraco in Benin city on Monday, military […]
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According to telegraph.co.uk, Ishan Rawal was reportedly kidnapped during a ceremony to celebrate the opening of his parents’ hospital in central India. His strangled body is understood to have been found in woodland after his parents Dr Nikita Rawal and Dr Arvind Rawal, who used to work at Hull Royal Infirmary, reported him missing. The […]
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