Kidnappers release boy without ransom in El Fasher
Militiamen released two people, one of whom is a child who has been abducted for two weeks, in North Darfur’s capital city on Tuesday. The release of the nine-year-old Mohamed Yagoub Abdel Karim and a trader coincided with the deadly clash between the army and Border Guards elements in El Fasher city on Tuesday. The child’s father, Yagoub Abdel Karim, said that Mohamad has spent two weeks in the hands of the kidnappers since 7 May. “The pro-government militiamen blindfolded him with a cloth. He has heard the firing of ammunition and fighting between the army and the Border Guards elements, because they were nearby.” He revealed that his son was drugged with a cloth and lost consciousness for two days after being kidnapped in the northern El Gubba district of El Fasher city. Abdel Karim had reported to several Sudanese newspapers that three masked men in a Hyundai Atos with only a rear plate had abducted his son. The kidnappers told him to pay a ransom of SDG250,000 ($43,579) for Mohamed’s release. “Intervene to save my son, and control the chaos in El Fasher,” he then urged the state authorities. In the end, the chaos in the city between armed groups prompted the release of his son. Abductions occur frequently in El Fasher city, and North Darfur’s Kutum locality, lately, mostly by militiamen or the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). In March this year, RSF elements abducted two young men in Donki Baashim in Kutum. A teacher of the Kassab camp secondary school in Kutum has been abducted by militiamen on 15 May. Two young men were kidnapped in El Fasher city on 17 May. News photo: Little Mohamad Yagoub Abdel Karim between the Head of Police of North Darfur and the Governor of North Darfur, Osman Mohamed Yusif Kibir (Al Shurooq) Related:Update: Army besieges Border Guards in North Darfur’s El Fasher (20 May 2014) Three men abducted, militiamen have ‘new weapons’ in North Darfur (20 May 2014) Ransom demanded for boy abducted in North Darfur (11 May 2014) North Darfur families call for release abducted relatives (29 April 2014)
Militiamen released two people, one of whom is a child who has been abducted for two weeks, in North Darfur’s capital city on Tuesday.
The release of the nine-year-old Mohamed Yagoub Abdel Karim and a trader coincided with the deadly clash between the army and Border Guards elements in El Fasher city on Tuesday.
The child’s father, Yagoub Abdel Karim, said that Mohamad has spent two weeks in the hands of the kidnappers since 7 May. “The pro-government militiamen blindfolded him with a cloth. He has heard the firing of ammunition and fighting between the army and the Border Guards elements, because they were nearby.” He revealed that his son was drugged with a cloth and lost consciousness for two days after being kidnapped in the northern El Gubba district of El Fasher city.
Abdel Karim had reported to several Sudanese newspapers that three masked men in a Hyundai Atos with only a rear plate had abducted his son. The kidnappers told him to pay a ransom of SDG250,000 ($43,579) for Mohamed’s release. “Intervene to save my son, and control the chaos in El Fasher,” he then urged the state authorities. In the end, the chaos in the city between armed groups prompted the release of his son.
Abductions occur frequently in El Fasher city, and North Darfur’s Kutum locality, lately, mostly by militiamen or the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). In March this year, RSF elements abducted two young men in Donki Baashim in Kutum. A teacher of the Kassab camp secondary school in Kutum has been abducted by militiamen on 15 May. Two young men were kidnapped in El Fasher city on 17 May.
News photo: Little Mohamad Yagoub Abdel Karim between the Head of Police of North Darfur and the Governor of North Darfur, Osman Mohamed Yusif Kibir (Al Shurooq)
Related:
Update: Army besieges Border Guards in North Darfur’s El Fasher (20 May 2014)
Three men abducted, militiamen have ‘new weapons’ in North Darfur (20 May 2014)
Ransom demanded for boy abducted in North Darfur (11 May 2014)
North Darfur families call for release abducted relatives (29 April 2014)
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