Japanese engineer kidnapped in Yemen: official
- Published: 17/11/2009 at 12:03 AM
- Online news: Asia
Gunmen have kidnapped a Japanese engineer near the Yemeni capital and want to exchange him for an arrested fellow tribesman, a local official said on Monday.
Map of Yemen locating Sanaa. A Yemeni official has told AFP that gunmen have kidnapped a Japanese engineer near Sanaa and want to exchange him for an arrested fellow tribesman.
The official in Arhab, a region northeast of Sanaa, told AFP that the Japanese man was abducted on Sunday while on his way to a village in the area to supervise the construction of a school.
The kidnapped engineer was identified only as a member of a Japanese aid agency operating in Yemen.
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