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Thu 05 May 2010Police in Sierra Leone free kidnapped Irish businessman
AN IRISH businessman has been freed by police in Sierra Leone after being kidnapped by armed men in an incident believed to be linked to a major gold-mining venture.
The man, a long-standing investor in Sierra Leone, was seized by a group of men outside his hotel in the capital, Freetown, on Monday afternoon. They bundled him into a 4x4 vehicle and handcuffed him before driving from the scene.
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