Briton 'kidnapped' in Yemen
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Your support makes all the difference.The Foreign Office is looking into reports today that a Briton was among nine people kidnapped in North Yemen.
According to AFP news agency, a British engineer, seven Germans and a South Korean have been seized by Shiite rebels in the Middle Eastern country.
The German group comprises a couple, three children and two women nurses, while the South Korean is a female teacher, it is claimed.
The nine hostages belong to an international organisation that has been working at a hospital in the Saada region for the past 35 years, a local official told the agency.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are investigating these reports."
The Yemeni interior ministry said the group were kidnapped on Friday by a Shiite rebel group led by Abdel Malak al-Hawthi, while on a picnic in northern Sada province.
Local Yemenis said the group included a German doctor, his wife and five children, as well as a Briton and his wife.
The state news agency said the foreigners worked in a hospital in Sada.
The rebels rose up against the government in the predominantly Sunni Yemen in 2004. They reached a fragile truce with the government last year.
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