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Police surround Somali aid worker kidnappers

Wed Dec 26, 2007 5:59am EST
BOSASSO, Somalia, Dec 26 (Reuters) - Police have surrounded and exchanged gunfire with the Somali kidnappers of an Argentine and a Spanish aid worker from medical charity Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF), authorities said on Wednesday.

"The police captured two of the kidnappers after a heavy exchange of gunfire, and they are now surrounded," Puntland Trade Minister Abdishamad Yusuf Abwan told Reuters. His account was confirmed by other officials and witnesses.


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