German hostage freed in Yemen

The German foreign minister Yushka Fischer has expressed his happiness and satisfaction over the release of the German commercial attache in the German embassy in Sanaa Rienre Burner on Sunday. The man was kidnapped by a Yemeni tribe two months earlier.

News reports quoted Fischer as saying:" I do thank the Yemeni government which, thanks to its negotiations, could have the kidnapped released, and the intensive and wise efforts made by it."

On the other hand, an official at the local authority in the Yemeni province of Ma'reb said that on late Sunday evening the commercial attache at the German embassy in Sanaa Rienre Burner was released after he was kidnapped two months earlier by the Yemeni Jahm tribe, News reports quoted the official, who refused to be identified as saying that the said diplomat was transported after his release from Serwah directorate to the west of Ma'reb city to the center of the province escorted by tribe- clan mediators..

The kidnappers had demanded a ransom of USD one million. A matter which was not confirmed nor denied by the official authorities.