CAIRO (AFP) – Bedouin men kidnapped two US tourists and their guide in Egypt’s lawless Sinai on Friday, police said, adding that they were demanding the release of a jailed tribesman in exchange for the hostages.The Bedouin captured the American man and woman in the middle of the peninsula, where they were in a car with their Egyptian guide, almost a month after tribesmen briefly kidnapped a tourist from Singapore. Read article
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A British tourist has described to a court in Kenya the terrifying events of the night when her husband was killed when they were kidnapped from a resort.Over a grainy video-link, Judith Tebbutt spoke face-to-face with the man accused of her kidnap and described the gang of Somali pirates who took her. Read article
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A Singapore tour leader who was kidnapped in Egypt has been freed and is scheduled to fly home, security sources confirmed to Bikyamasr.com on Saturday morning. The man had been taken by armed men in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula while traveling to Cairo, but was released unharmed, Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Saturday. Read […]
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Watch out if you’re driving on the motorway connecting Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Ghent, Dunkirk and the Channel Ports, particularly towards the southern end of the route, there have been robberies and express kidnappings of tourists. The warning has been issued by the British Foreign Office, which says the crooks aren’t afraid to use […]
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Commander of Turkish gendarmes and two junior lieutenants were killed as a result of mine blast in South-Eastern part of Turkey, Diarbekir region, Lije community. The region is populated with Kurds and the mine was settled by the Kurdish Workers’ Party’s (PKK) soldiers. As Turkish “Milliet” newspaper writes the gendarmes were engaged in seeking for […]
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The U.S. State Department is reporting that two American tourists visiting Egypt have been kidnapped at gunpoint. The Americans were reportedly on the eastern coast of the Sinai Peninsula, in the city of Dahab, when kidnappers allegedly pulled them from their car. The kidnapping is tied to the arrest of a local man, Eid Suleiman […]
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Mexico: American Citizen kidnapped in Jalisco On May 18th, members of 2 drug cartels, Millennium and Los Zetas, kidnapped an American citizen in Chapala. When the foreigner walked his dogs, members of the drug cartels picked him up and released him hours later upon the condition to take a woman to a hospital. Read Article
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As a follow-up to my May 5 posting, concerning the kidnapping of Nayati Shamelin Moodliar, 12, a Dutch citizen who was released on May 3 after a ransom payment was delivered to the abductors, Malaysian police have arrested five suspects in the case, although the mastermind in the case has reportedly fled to Europe. COMMENT: […]
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A desperate Cape Town-born couple has made a heart-rending plea for the safe return of their 12-year-old son who was kidnapped in Kuala Lampur early yesterday while on his way to the Mont Kiara International School.The boy, Nayati Moodliar, who is in Grade 7, was snatched on the corner of Jln Tiara by two men […]
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THE body of a British Red Cross worker held captive in Pakistan since January has been found in an orchard, his throat slit and a note attached to his body saying he was killed because no ransom was paid, police say. Khalil Rasjed Dale, 60, was managing a health program in the city of Quetta […]
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