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Libyan diplomat held in Derna released

byCallum Paton
May 27, 2014
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By Aimen Amzein and Moutaz Ahmed.

Benghazi, 27 May 2014:

A Libyan diplomat kidnapped in the Karsa district of Derna over two . . .[restrict]weeks ago has been released to his family.

Abdussalam Ben Saoud, an accountant working at the Libyan embassy in Yemen, was released to his sons at 3 am this morning. A local resident told the Libya Herald he was recovered from Derna’s Baljabiyla the Martyr’s School, where he was found bound and blind-folded, slumped against an exterior wall.

It is believed Saoud’s pick-up was prearranged and that a sizeable random was paid for his release. [/restrict]

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