ADEN, Mar 6 (NNN-YPA) – Two workers of the international medical charity, Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres/MSF), were kidnapped by gunmen, in Yemen’s south-eastern province of Hadramout yesterday, a security official said.
The aid workers, nationals of Germany and Mexico, were intercepted, when travelling in the western part of Hadramout, the local security source said.
“The unidentified gunmen set up an armed ambush and kidnapped two MSF’s aid workers, driving them to unknown whereabouts,” the local source said.
Last month, Russell Geekie, senior communications advisor to the UN resident and humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, confirmed that, five UN staff members were kidnapped in Abyan Province “after having completed a field mission.”
The UN staff members are still held by unknown gunmen, as a mediation conducted by local tribal figures failed to get them released, despite a series of negotiation rounds, with an armed group responsible for the kidnapping incident.– NNN-ANA
