Somali kidnappers release UN official

Eye witnesses in Makadishu said on Tuesday that kidnappers from Somalia on Mondat evening released a UN official safely after kidnapping him four days ago while heading for his work at Makadishu.

The police commander in Makadishu Abidi Hassan al-Awali said that the police formed a unit to chase the kidnappers.

The kidnapped, Ahmad Muiallim Muhammad, who is a Somali working for UNICEF, known as "Discipline" was kidnapped last Thursday in the first kidnapping operation since one year in which a UN employees in Makadishu.