Wed Sep 14, 2011
Somalia's anti-government al-Shabab group has denied any involvement in the abduction of a British woman from a luxury beach resort in Kenya, Press TV reports.
A senior al-Shabab official in Kismayo, 200 km (120 miles) north of the Kenyan border, told Press TV on Wednesday that the Briton, 56-year-old Judith Tebbutt, had been brought to the Somali port city. He also dismissed reports that al-Shabab had any links with her kidnapping.
“We have credible information that the (British) woman is held in Kismayo but we are not responsible,” the al-Shabab official said on condition of anonymity.
“Hopefully we will find out who is responsible and issue official statement on the matter,” he added.
Unidentified gunmen raided the remote Kiwayu Safari Village, Kenya, in the early hours of Sunday, shooting dead publishing executive David Tebbutt, 58, and taking hostage his wife Judith before escaping by boat.
British Prime Minister David Cameron told parliament on Wednesday that he had chaired a crisis meeting on the kidnapping.
"We are doing everything we possibly can on this desperately tragic case," he said on Wednesday.
"The Foreign Secretary (William Hague) has met with the family today. I think on some of these cases it is not right to air all of these issues in public but I can reassure ... the Tebbutt family (that) we will do everything possible to help, " Cameron added.
Concern has been growing for Judith Tebbutt, who is believed to be deaf and wear a double hearing aid.
Police in Kenya say they have arrested a man suspected of aiding the gunmen. He is believed to have information about the person, who organized the kidnapping.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.com/detail/199134.html.
Somalia's anti-government al-Shabab group has denied any involvement in the abduction of a British woman from a luxury beach resort in Kenya, Press TV reports.
A senior al-Shabab official in Kismayo, 200 km (120 miles) north of the Kenyan border, told Press TV on Wednesday that the Briton, 56-year-old Judith Tebbutt, had been brought to the Somali port city. He also dismissed reports that al-Shabab had any links with her kidnapping.
“We have credible information that the (British) woman is held in Kismayo but we are not responsible,” the al-Shabab official said on condition of anonymity.
“Hopefully we will find out who is responsible and issue official statement on the matter,” he added.
Unidentified gunmen raided the remote Kiwayu Safari Village, Kenya, in the early hours of Sunday, shooting dead publishing executive David Tebbutt, 58, and taking hostage his wife Judith before escaping by boat.
British Prime Minister David Cameron told parliament on Wednesday that he had chaired a crisis meeting on the kidnapping.
"We are doing everything we possibly can on this desperately tragic case," he said on Wednesday.
"The Foreign Secretary (William Hague) has met with the family today. I think on some of these cases it is not right to air all of these issues in public but I can reassure ... the Tebbutt family (that) we will do everything possible to help, " Cameron added.
Concern has been growing for Judith Tebbutt, who is believed to be deaf and wear a double hearing aid.
Police in Kenya say they have arrested a man suspected of aiding the gunmen. He is believed to have information about the person, who organized the kidnapping.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.com/detail/199134.html.
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