A Dutchman was freed by Spanish police on Friday from a vacation home in a suburb of Vigo, a city in the western Spanish region of Galicia. According to Spanish media, the Turks demanded money from the Dutchman and threatened him with a firearm, which the police later confiscated. The Dutchman was kidnapped by three Turkish men in the Teis …
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CAIRO — A Sudanese teen refugee has been released from a detention center in western Libya where he was held for five months after being kidnapped and tortured by gunmen demanding ransom, his family said Wednesday. Mazen Adam, 15, from Sudan’s conflict-torn Darfur region, walked free on Monday from a juvenile detention center near the capital, Tripoli, according to his …
Kidnappers have released the remaining 14 students who had been held captive after being abducted last month from a northern Nigerian university, officials said. Armed groups have repeatedly attacked schools and universities in northwest Nigeria in the last few months, abducting more than 700 students for ransom since December. “Fourteen of the abducted students of the university have been freed,” …