Five #Egyptian #embassy staff #kidnapped in #Libya #Abductions in #Tripoli follow #threat of #retaliation from #militia group whose #leader was #arrested in #Cairo Share Tweet this Email Reuters theguardian, Saturday 25 January 2014 06.13 EST Tripoli, the capital of Libya Tripoli, the capital of Libya from which five Egyptian embassy staff have been kidnapped. Photograph: Amr Nabil/AP Five Egyptian embassy staff have been kidnapped in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, the Libyan foreign ministry has said. Four were kidnapped on Saturday and one on Friday. No group has claimed responsibility for any of the abductions, but they came soon after a Libyan militia said its leader had been arrested in Cairo and it threatened to retaliate. Four more have been kidnapped, the Libyan foreign ministry spokesman said on Saturday. One of them is the cultural attache and the other three are staff, he added, without giving further details. One militia group, the Operations Room of Libyas Revolutionaries, said on Friday its leader, Shaban Hadia, had been arrested in Egypt, where he had travelled with his family for medical treatment. Another of the groups leaders, Adel al-Gharyani, denied it had kidnapped the first Egyptian diplomat. But he called on Egyptian authorities to release their commander or there would be a strong response from the group. A number of foreigners have been abducted and attacked in recent weeks. Libyan security forces earlier this week freed a South Korean trade official who had been held for days by kidnappers who authorities said were not politically motivated. An American teacher was shot dead in Benghazi in December, and in January, a British man and a New Zealand woman were killed on a beach in western Libya. The Egyptian government said on Friday that talks were continuing to try to secure the release of the first diplomat, an administrative attache. theguardian/world/2014/jan/25/five-egyptian-embassy-staff-kidnapped-libya-tripoli-cairo
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