[Bangla Daily Star] Bulgaria's ambassador to Yemen escaped a kidnap attempt on Saturday while he was driving through Sanaa in a diplomatic car, local and Bulgarian officials said on Sunday."Masked gunnies stopped the car of the Bulgarian ambassador to kidnap him, but the diplomat managed to escape and hide in a nearby shop," a security official told AFP in Sanaa.
The attempt against Ambassador Boris Borisov and his wife took place on Algeria Street, a main thoroughfare in the Yemeni capital, at around 17:00pm, another official said.
In Sofia Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov confirmed the incident, adding that Borisov was injured in the fight.
The ambassador will return to Sofia shortly for treatment and the embassy in Sanaa will be closed for business for the next few days, Mladenov told national radio.