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]