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Somalia: Gunmen abduct German man in Northern Somalia
Mon. September 22, 2008 02:09 am.- By Bonny Apunyu. -
(SomaliNet) In the latest kidnapping of Westerners in Somalia, gunmen seized a German man from Puntland semiautonomous on Saturday beating him as he drove with his vehicle and his wife that was traveling with him when they were stopped by the abductors, officials said.
The incident occurred just in days, after a lull in such abductions in recent months in Puntland that are relatively calm compared with southern Somalia.
According to eyewitnesses, the man whose name was not identified and his local wife were taken to the east of the Bossaso town.
"It is (clear) that they were kidnapped at gunpoint and driven away, their schedule was to come back to the hotel before 4:00PM in the afternoon and we don't have their whereabouts", official told Shabelle.
With rampant piracy and the rising insecurity in the Horn of Africa nation, sea transport is the last lifeline of some 3.2 million Somalis in need of food aid.
Somalia has been without an effective central authority since the 1991 ouster of former president Mohamed Siad Barre which set off a deadly power struggle.-News Blaze
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