DUBAI, United Arab Emirates —
Al-Qaeda’s Yemen branch released a video on
Saturday showing a UN worker who was abducted in the war-torn country more than
six months ago, the SITE Intelligence Group reported.
اضافة اعلان
Five UN staff
members were kidnapped in Yemen’s southern province of Abyan in February while
returning to the port city of Aden “after having completed a field mission”, UN
spokesperson Eri Kaneko told AFP at the time.
In Saturday’s
video message, apparently recorded on August 9, Akam Sofyol Anam, identified by
SITE as
Bangladeshi, urges “the UN, the international community, the
humanitarian organizations, to please come forward ... and meet the demands of
my captors”, without outlining the demands.
He said he was facing
“serious health trouble”, including heart problems, and needed “immediate
medical support and hospitalization”, according to SITE, which monitors
extremist activity.
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