Sudan Kills Egypt Kidnappers After Desert Chase
September 28, 2008 by national
Filed under World Report
UPDATE: All hostages are reported to have been released.
Sudanese forces have killed six kidnappers who abducted 11 European tourists and eight Egyptian guides in a remote desert in southern Egypt nine days ago, Sudan’s presidential advisor has said.
“Sudanese forces followed the tracks of the kidnappers … and found them on the Chad border,” Mahjoub Fadl Badri said on Sunday.
“Sudanese forces killed six, including the commander of a Darfur rebel group, and arrested two,” he said.
“What the [captured] kidnappers say is that the hostages are still in Chad, they put them in a hideout and are still negotiating about them, but we have no details whether the Chadian army has moved in.”
A Sudanese soldier was also injured in the clash, Egypt’s official MENA news agency quoted the Sudanese army as saying, adding that the hostages were now being held at a place called Tabbat Shajara, just inside Chad.
