Bangladesh said today it had made a fresh offer to hold face-to-face talks with kidnappers holding three European men hostage in remote forested hills in the south-east of the country.
A proposal to hold a face-to-face meeting has been sent through a tribal leader, said an official in the hill town of Rangamati.
He said the first contact with kidnappers yesterday had produced no immediate result.
Danes Mr Torben Mikkelsen and Mr Nils Hulgaard and Briton Mr Tim Selby, who were working on a Danish-financed road project in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, were captured at Guniapara near Rangamati, about 400 km from the capital Dhaka on Friday.
Another Briton, Mr David Weston (56) was taken captive along with a Bangladeshi driver but later released and told to deliver a ransom demand.
Security officials believe the kidnappers are from a hardline ethnic minority rebel faction based in the Hill Tracts.