Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
1 December 2008
Bossasso — Puntland security forces have arrested five men for the kidnapping this week of two European journalists who are being held in the hills east of Bosasso, the local governor said on Sunday.
Gunmen seized the British reporter and Spanish photographer on Wednesday in the latest attack on foreigners working in the lawless Horn of Africa nation. Bosasso is the main port in semi-autonomous Puntland region.
"After investigation we have arrested five men who worked with those who kidnapped the two foreign journalists," governor Muse Gelle Yusuf.( Farolle) said.
"We have sent troops to save them". He added.
Our reporter in Bossasso says two Somali journalists were accused for involvement of the kidnapping, quoting officials.
It is one of the world's most dangerous countries for reporters. Foreign aid workers have also been increasingly targeted, with a string of assassinations and kidnappings.
Foreign correspondents generally stay out of Somalia, leaving reporting on the ground to local journalists. But a few do still go in, usually hiring local militiamen to protect them.
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