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| In Haiti, kidnapped aid workers released |
| 2010-03-12 |
| [Iran Press TV Latest] Two female aid workers with the Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) in quake-ravaged Haiti, who have been adducted last week, were freed Thursday and are "safe and sound." For security reasons and in a bid not to "complicate" negotiations to free the women, the Friday kidnapping had been kept secret. "We confirm that there was a kidnapping," spokesman Michel Peremans told AFP on Thursday. The two women "were freed today." According to Peremans, the kidnapping of foreign aid workers was the first such incident in the aftermath of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti that took the lives of more than 220,000 people and left 1.3 million people homeless. "We will see how we can keep working," Peremans said, adding that providing security for workers was of high importance to the group. The organization maintains 400 foreign employees along with 3,000 Haitians who work in the Central American nation. "It's very important for us. We want to keep working in Haiti," said the spokesman. It is believed that the prisoners, who following the quake broke out of their jails, are responsible for the criminal acts underway in the quake-ravaged country. Most of these criminals have sought refuge in Cite Soleil, a city slum ruined by the quake, where police and UN peacekeepers struggle to impose the law. |
| Posted by:Fred |