Somalia in Tense Hostage Negotiation

By Prensa Latina

Nairobi : Abdulrahaman Mohamed Bankah, Somali Information Minister for the Puntlandia region, confirmed Wednesday that negotiations are underway with the kidnappers of two collaborators of Doctors without Frontiers.


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Bankah issued radio statements that authorities are in contact with the four remaining kidnappers of Spanish Doctor Mercedes Garcia and Argentine nurse Pilar Bauza.

This information clarified stories of possible dead or injured people in a shootout between police and kidnappers.

The police have surrounded the kidnappers in Bossaso, far northeast Somalia, an two of the kidnappers surrendered to the authorities.

However four kidnappers are keeping Garcia and Bauza as hostages, demanding free and safe passage.

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