Bangladesh prepares for talks with kidnappers

Bangladesh is preparing for talks today with kidnappers who seized two Danes and a Briton last week and are holding them for …

Bangladesh is preparing for talks today with kidnappers who seized two Danes and a Briton last week and are holding them for ransom in a remote forest region.

An army intelligence officer said government negotiators could leave with mediators as early as this afternoon for a meeting at a secret location in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, a region bordering India and Burma.

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