Qatar: Al-Thani hostage release
Issue 1013
- 23 Apr 2016
| 1 minute read
One un-named member of the Qatari royal family, along with a Pakistani national, was released by kidnappers in Iraq nearly four months after being taken captive while on a hunting trip, it was announced on 13 April. They were among more than 20 people abducted from a desert hunting party close to the Saudi border last December. According to a statement published on the official Qatar News Agency, “efforts are still ongoing to free the rest of the 26 kidnapped”.
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