SANA’A: A Dutch couple living in Yemen disappeared in Sana’a, police said yesterday, with press reports saying they had been kidnapped. “The police commissariat learned of the disappearance a few days ago of a Dutchman and his wife,” a security official said. Press reports said the couple, who have not been named, had not been seen for three days, had been abducted.
Daily Al-Yemen Al-Youm reported that “unknown men kidnapped” the couple, without giving details. Western sources said the pair were teaching at the Lebanese International University in Sana’a, and that the wife was also a journalist working for a radio station in The Netherlands. The two had not been seen at the university since Tuesday, some of their students said.
It was not possible to contact the Dutch embassy yesterday. Hundreds of people have been abducted in Yemen in the past 15 years, nearly all of them later freed unharmed. AFP
