22.09.2008 - Somali Police Free German Hostages from Kidnappers
"The Somali police used force, injuring two of the gunmen; the
operation was successful," Andrew Mwangura of the East African
Seafarers' Assistance Program told DPA news agency on Monday, Sept.
22.
"The hostages are safe and in the hands of the rescue group and the
wife's clan members," he continued.
Police launched the operation on the gunmen's hideout near the port
town of Bosasso in the early hours of Monday morning.
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Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.
The weak central government has been unable to suppress a brutal
insurgency that has gripped the country since early 2007 and has
also failed to curb rampant piracy off the coastline.
Over a dozen ships are in the hands of pirates seeking ransom.
Foreigners are also often targeted for kidnap and murder on
land in the Horn of Africa nation, although mainly in the lawless
central and southern regions where the insurgency is concentrated.
(Deutsche Welle)
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