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| Six foreigners recovered from Khyber, kidnappers held |
| 2009-08-02 |
| [The News (Pak) Top Stories] Six kidnapped foreigners were recovered and their three captors arrested in the Khyber Agency on Saturday. Sources said security forces raided the house of Saifullah in the Sipah area here and recovered the hostages. Some of those recovered were identified as Michael, John Paul, Steven and Mozi, nationals of Nigeria, and Jeffrey Harrison belonging to Sierra Leone. The arrested kidnappers were identified as Gul Shad, Taj Muhammad and Saifullah. Official sources at the Shakas Fort told the media that the foreigners had been held hostage by activists of the banned Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) for ransom. A major of the Mehsud Scouts said one Nigerian hostage had died in captivity. The hostages recovered showed signs of torture on their bodies to reporters. When contacted, a spokesman for the LI, Zar Khan, said the accused were not activists of his outfit. He said the Nigerian citizens had come to the tribal areas to procure drugs for smuggling. |
| Posted by:Fred |