2 British, 4 Dutch Citizens Kidnapped
From Times Wire Reports
Two British and four Dutch citizens were kidnapped in northern Yemen, a Yemeni Interior Ministry official said in Sana, the nation’s capital. The abduction comes less than three weeks after three Britons and an Australian were killed when Yemeni soldiers tried to rescue 16 Western hostages from their Islamic militant kidnappers. In the Netherlands, the Dutch Foreign Ministry confirmed TV reports that the Dutch citizens were a couple and their two small children.
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