Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
30 June 2008
Mogadishu — Reports from Bosaso town the provincial capital of Puntland semiautonomous say that it has been failed a kidnapping attack on two French journalists in the town Sunday police said.
The bodyguards of the journalist and the kidnappers have exchanged with additional gun fire that prevented the assailants from the abduction of the journalists. Kidnappings have been on the rise in Somalia, which has not had a functioning government for more than 15 years. No further details on that incident are availible.
In the past week alone, five people have been abducted. A German couple, their son and a French yacht captain were kidnapped Monday off the Gulf of Aden and pirates were demanding a $1 million ransom. A Somali employee of the U.N. refugee agency was taken June 21 outside Mogadishu.
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