A joint military operation to free American hostage Luke Somers has taken place in Yemen Saturday, local officials said - but the status of the 33-year-old was not immediately clear. The operation took place in Shabwa province, a Yemen interior ministry official told NBC News, adding that 10 militants were killed.
The move came two days after the Pentagon acknowledged an earlier U.S. commando mission to rescue Somers had failed. Teacher and photographer Somers, a British-born U.S. citizen, was abducted a year ago in Sanaa where he had been working as a freelance photographer for the Yemen Times.
Al Qaeda posted a video Thursday that showed Somers and a local militant commander threatening that thwe hostage would meet his fate in three days if the U.S. didn't meet the group's demands.
This is a breaking news story.
- Charlene Gubash and Alastair Jamieson
First published December 6 2014, 12:02 AM
Source: Top Stories - Google News - http://ift.tt/1q5Mv23
0 comments:
Post a Comment