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KANO, Nigeria, May 27, 2024 (AFP) – Gunmen in central Nigeria have kidnapped around 150 people in the country’s latest mass abduction, officials told AFP on Monday. Attackers on motorbikes stormed Kuchi village in Niger state on Friday, where they killed eight people and “abducted about 150 villagers,” local government chairman Aminu Najume said. A UN source gave the same figure for the number kidnapped, while a Nigerian state rescue agency said more than 100 […]
CULIACÁN, Mexico, March 24, 2024 (AFP) – Mexican authorities were searching Saturday for two dozen people in Sinaloa state reported to have been kidnapped along with more than 40 others who have since been found alive. The governor of the coastal state in northwest Mexico — home to the notorious Sinaloa drug cartel — had said earlier Saturday that 18 people had been found out of 25 missing, and did not explain the significant jump […]
BOGOTÁ, Nov 11, 2023 (AFP) – Police in Colombia have detained four people suspected in the kidnapping of the father of Liverpool footballer Luis Diaz, who was held hostage for nearly two weeks by members of the ELN guerilla group, officials said Saturday. Luis Manuel Diaz was freed Thursday, 12 days after being abducted by armed men on motorcycles at a gas station in the town of Barrancas near the Venezuelan border. “We have detained […]
WASHINGTON, July 29, 2023 (AFP) – An American nurse and her child have been kidnapped in Haiti, a Christian aid group said Saturday, days after the US government ordered its nonessential personnel out of the impoverished Caribbean country due to spiraling insecurity. Alix Dorsainvil and her child were kidnapped Thursday morning near Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, El Roi Haiti said in a statement on its website. She is the wife of the group’s director, who is […]
ABUJA, May 7, 2023 (AFP) – Police in Nigeria said Sunday that it rescued 58 people who were abducted and held hostage by criminal gangs in central Kogi State, while one victim died during the operation. Kidnappings are one of the many security challenges facing incoming President Bola Tinubu, who will be sworn in later this month after a February election disputed by the opposition. “The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has rescued 58 […]
Human Rights Watch on Friday accused Vietnam of kidnapping a blogger critical of the communist government who was living as a refugee in Thailand. Thai Van Duong, who fled to Thailand in 2019 to escape Vietnamese authorities and was subsequently given refugee status, disappeared last week. According to Vietnamese state media, the 41-year-old is now in custody in Vietnam after being detained for “illegally entering” the country through an unofficial border crossing close to Laos […]
Kano, Nigeria | AFP | Tuesday 4/4/2023 Ten students have been kidnapped in northwest Nigeria’s Kaduna State where criminal gangs have previously carried out several mass abductions of children, a government official said Tuesday. The victims who are students at the Awon Government Secondary School in the central Kachia district were seized on Monday in unclear circumstances, said Samuel Aruwan, Kaduna’s internal security and home affairs commissioner. This was the first known mass abduction of […]
Two US citizens kidnapped by suspected Mexican drug traffickers were found dead Tuesday while two others survived, in what officials said appeared to be a tragic case of mistaken identity. Washington vowed to do everything in its power to ensure justice for the victims, who crossed the border into the crime-plagued city of Matamoros in Tamaulipas state on Friday for medical reasons. Initial indications were that the abduction was the result of a “mix-up” […]
Bangkok, Thailand | AFP | A Thai plastic surgeon on Thursday described drinking pond water to survive during three weeks of captivity at the hands of gun-toting kidnappers in Mali. Nopparat Rattanawaraha, who also runs a popular YouTube channel where he posts travel clips, returned to Thailand after being released on payment of a reported $150,000 ransom. The 49-year-old was back at work just a day after flying back to the kingdom, and recounted the […]
Two Islamic militants accused of kidnapping and killing four foreigners in the restive southern Philippines were detained Friday after surrendering to the military, authorities said. The fugitives were members of the feared kidnap-for-ransom group Abu Sayyaf and have been handed over to police on Jolo island in Sulu province, regional military spokesman Alaric Delos Santos told AFP. “Their surrender does not extinguish their responsibility for these cases. That’s why we turned them over to the […]
(Eagle News)–Authorities arrested a 48-year-old man wanted for kidnapping, the Philippine National Police said. According to the PNP, Allan Nacorda Gemongala Sr. was nabbed in a manhunt operation in Barangay Canduman in Mandaue, Cebu on Monday. Gemongala was nabbed by virtue of a warrant of arrest issued by Cebu City Regional Trial Court Branch 22 Judge Manuel Patalinghug for kidnapping on June 16, 2014. No bail was recommended. The PNP did not give additional details […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) – Thousands of people demonstrated Tuesday in Haiti to denounce a surge in kidnappings and the lack of action by the government of Prime Minister Ariel Henry to protect the population from crime gangs. The Caribbean nation has been under the sway of gangs for months, their influence extending far beyond the poor neighborhoods of the capital Port-au-Prince that spawned them. “According to the alerts we receive, I’d say that between five […]
