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Yemen - 9 foreigners kidnapped

Global Arab Network - - Maha Karim

Sunday, 14 June 2009 14:42

A South Korean woman has been kidnapped by militants in Yemen along with eight other foreigners, reports said. Nine foreigners, including seven Germans, a British engineer and a South Korean woman teacher, have been kidnapped by rebels in northern Yemen," the report said.

An official at the South Korean foreign ministry, quoted by the South Korean News Agency Yonhap, said Seoul was still working to confirm the report, adding no missing persons report has been filed with its embassy in Yemen.
"The embassy is working with the diplomatic missions of Germany and Britain to confirm the case, and is also working closely with local police to learn more about the case," an official at Seoul''s presidential office said. The hostages belong to an international aid organization that has been working at a hospital in the town of Saada.

Four South Korean tourists were killed and three others were injured in Yemen in March following a bomb attack in the historic city of Shibam, about 90 kilometers east of the Yemeni capital, Sanna.
The South Korean foreign ministry had placed a travel warning on Yemen shortly after the attack in March that prohibits South Koreans from traveling to the country''s terror-prone areas. The warning is still in effect.

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