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Five Egyptian embassy staff kidnapped in Libya
Source: Reuters
Five Egyptian embassy staff kidnapped in Libya
Reuters
theguardian.com, Saturday 25 January 2014 11.13 GMT
Five Egyptian embassy staff have been kidnapped in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, the Libyan foreign ministry has said.
Four were kidnapped on Saturday and one on Friday. No group has claimed responsibility for any of the abductions, but they came soon after a Libyan militia said its leader had been arrested in Cairo and it threatened to retaliate.
"Four more have been kidnapped," the Libyan foreign ministry spokesman said on Saturday. "One of them is the cultural attache and the other three are staff," he added, without giving further details.
One militia group, the Operations Room of Libya's Revolutionaries, said on Friday its leader, Shaban Hadia, had been arrested in Egypt, where he had travelled with his family for medical treatment.
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Reuters
theguardian.com, Saturday 25 January 2014 11.13 GMT
Five Egyptian embassy staff have been kidnapped in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, the Libyan foreign ministry has said.
Four were kidnapped on Saturday and one on Friday. No group has claimed responsibility for any of the abductions, but they came soon after a Libyan militia said its leader had been arrested in Cairo and it threatened to retaliate.
"Four more have been kidnapped," the Libyan foreign ministry spokesman said on Saturday. "One of them is the cultural attache and the other three are staff," he added, without giving further details.
One militia group, the Operations Room of Libya's Revolutionaries, said on Friday its leader, Shaban Hadia, had been arrested in Egypt, where he had travelled with his family for medical treatment.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/25/five-egyptian-embassy-staff-kidnapped-libya-tripoli-cairo