WORLD IN BRIEF : MOZAMBIQUE : 6 Americans in Aid Group Seized
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Seven members of a California-based aid group were apprehended by government forces while delivering medical aid to refugees in Mozambique, a spokesman for the group said. David Courson, president of Christian Emergency Relief Team, based in Carlsbad, said those seized include six Americans and a South African. He said they were taken Tuesday to Tete, a town in the country’s northwest. Marxist-ruled Mozambique has been racked for years by a rightist insurgency.
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