By DPA
Kabul : A German engineer held hostage for more than a month pleaded for help to secure his release in a video footage broadcast by an Afghan private Channel Thursday.
Rudolph. B, the 62-year-old German engineer who was abducted July 18 in the southern province of Maidan Wardak with another German engineer and five Afghan colleagues, looked weak and pale and was coughing while saying: “I am prisoner”.
He asked the Afghan and German governments to help secure his freedom, during the broadcast on TOLO, a private TV channel.
“I have been here for a long time with the Taliban in custody, I am a friend and partner of the people of Afghanistan, I ask the Afghan government, the German embassy in Kabul and German government to secure my release,” he said in English in the video.
The channel did not say how it obtained the video image.
The video also showed four of his Afghan colleagues, one of who asked the Afghan government and parliament to help and release him.
His German colleague suffered a heart attack soon after being captured and was then shot dead by his captors.