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Reuters
OUAGADOUGOU — The Polish people taken hostage in Burkina Faso in April were released last week, the Burkina Faso government said late Wednesday.
Rafal Kamil Bednarski eastern on April 27, while traveling by bus through a rebel-attacked West African country where Islamic extremist groups have occupied territory since 2015. Was kidnapped in the state of Gourma.
He was released on June 24, and the government told the ministerial council without providing further details. According to sources close to the
incident, the Reuters Bednarski kidnapper drove him to a military base near the eastern border with Niger on a truck with a motorcycle and dropped him off.
On Thursday, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that the abducted Polish citizens had been released.
The man was released as a result of close cooperation between his family, the province, Polish security agencies and Burkina Faso authorities, but did not provide further details. ..
This year, there were a series of kidnapping cases in Burkina Faso. Meanwhile, the ruling junta is intensifying its fight against militant groups (groups associated with al-Qaeda and Islamic State) that frequently attack the military and civilians. ..
Armed men kidnapped an 83-year-old American nun from her parish in a city in the north of Kaya on April 5. Bednarski is also taken hostage. (Report by Anne Mimault and David Lewis, Additional Report by Pawel Florkiewicz in Warsaw, Written by Sofia Christensen, Edited by Alex Richardson and Tomasz Janowski)
