Only days after British tourist Judith Tebbutt was kidnapped and her husband killed at an upscale resort in Lamu in September, Kenyan tanks rolled into Somalia seeking to create a buffer zone against the bandits who had been operating with impunity on the nation’s doorstep. That was a decisive enough response to the repeated provocations of the Shabaab-allied militants for whom the Ras Kamboni region had long served as a safe haven. Read article
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19 MAR 2012: An Egyptian official says armed men kidnapped two Brazilian women and their Egyptian tour guide as they were travelling on a bus near Mount Sinai. The head of security in Egypt’s south Sinai Peninsula, Mahmoud Hefnawi, said six armed men with covered faces approached the tour bus carrying the Brazilian women and […]
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AFP – Egyptian Bedouin on Sunday kidnapped two Brazilian tourists in the Sinai peninsula, the third abduction of tourists in the peninsula this year, security officials said. Read article
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In a statement, the British High Commission office, the UK said it has taken recent decisions to change travel advice extremely carefully and responsibly, consulting closely with Kenyan authorities throughout. “Tourists from Britain still make up the largest number of visitors who tour Kenya. So we understand very well the impact that such a change […]
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Philippine authorities have ordered the arrest of ten police officers wanted in connection with the kidnapping of four South Korean tourists. Additionally, Alfredo Lim, mayor of Manila, has ordered the ten to be dropped from the police rolls on the basis that they fled on February 14, shortly after the kidnapping occurred. Reportedly, a tourist […]
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Two female American tourists were released Friday night, hours after masked gunmen kidnapped them on the road that leads to St. Catherine’s Monastery, a historic landmark in the Sinai Peninsula, a military official said.The kidnappers had pulled over the minivan the women were traveling in and abducted them, along with their Egyptian tour guide, the […]
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Two female aid workers working for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) were kidnapped at Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp near Somalia on Thursday. Police suspected that al Shabaab militants were responsible. Read Article
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A French woman seized in northern Kenya was taken to Somalia by her captors after a sea battle to rescue her failed, Kenyan government officials said. Gunmen snatched the woman early Saturday from her holiday home in Manda Island, close to where a Briton was abducted and her husband killed last month. Read Article
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Telegraph.com.ukDavid Tebbutt, 58, a finance director at Faber & Faber, the publishing house based in Bloomsbury, is believed to have been shot dead while attempting to resist kidnap. His wife Judith, 57, was taken hostage by the gunmen who are believed to have forced her on to a speedboat. It is not known where she […]
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Honolulu Police have opened a kidnapping case after a Japanese tourist was restrained and robbed in his hotel room Saturday afternoon. According to police, the 46-year-old man was found by hotel security at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel after they received several dropped calls form his room. Read Article
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