2 March, 2007 |

15 foreign tourists are kidnapped in Ethiopia

Today the SkyNews TV channel has informed that 15 foreign tourists - 10 Frenchmen and five citizens of the Great Britain have been kidnapped in the north of Ethiopia. It is marked, that a wife of director of the British Council in Ethiopia is among the kidnapped tourists.
The UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is studying the development of situation with great abduction. And the representative of French embassy in Ethiopia Dominic Gaultier has declared that the attempts to collect data on abduction are now being undertaken. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France Phillip Dust-Blazi has declared that under available information, some Europeans have been stolen in the north of Ethiopia. But at the present moment it is impossible to speak with confidence neither about their number, nor about a nationality of the kidnapped people even if many attributes force to think that there are Frenchmen among them.
The representatives of the Ethiopian authorities have informed that they are closely checking the data concerning the tourists and the communiqué will be promulgated later.
It is supposed, that the tourists made travel on four cars to hydrochloric mines, located in region Afar and have been kidnapped by the unknown persons near the Dalol city in 800 kilometers to northeast from Addis-Ababa. One of them could escape and, having reached other group of tourists, has phoned to authorities of the region and told about the incident.
The Afar region is considered as one of the most dangerous regions of Ethiopia because of gangsters and insurgents. In 1995 the Afar tribe has kidnapped nine Italian tourists. In two weeks the Italians have been released.

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