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Wed 10 Oct 2009Kidnappers of Red Cross worker demand €1m ransom
THE KIDNAPPERS of a Red Cross employee abducted in Darfur in the same week two Goal aid workers were freed following 107 days in captivity have demanded a ransom of at least $1 million in exchange for his release.
Gauthier Lefevre, a dual French-British national who had travelled to Sudan on his French passport, was seized by an armed gang in western Darfur last week. The kidnapping took place just days after Goal workers Sharon Commins (32) and her Ugandan colleague Hilda Kawuki (42) were freed on October 18th.
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