Kidnaped German to Be Freed, PLO Says
A top Palestinian official said Sunday that a West German relief worker reported kidnaped in the southern Lebanese port of Sidon will probably be freed soon.
Zeid Wehbeh, the Palestine Liberation Organization representative in Lebanon, told Visnews television news agency that the man, whom he named as Marcus Quint, “will maybe be in our hands in a few hours.”
He said Palestinian groups were doing their best to find the 24-year-old Quint, reported kidnaped Thursday with two other West German workers for the ASME-Humanitas relief agency.
The other two, who said they were released Friday, told security authorities that the kidnapers threatened to kill their colleague unless an Arab held in a Cypriot jail is released.
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