`Abducted` priest is safe |
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told a Church delegationom April 2 that Christian priest Father Tom Uzhunnalil, who was reportedly abducted by the Islamic State in Yemen, is safe. She also said the government was adopting all possible means for his quick and safe release. The minister said that the “wild rumors being spread about any harm done” to the priest were “totally baseless”.The Church delegation had expressed “deep concern and distress” over the fate of Uzhunnalil, whose whereabouts are not known even 29 days after his abduction. There have been some unconfirmed reports he was killed by militants.Uzhunnalil, a Salesian priest, was kidnapped in Yemen on March 4 during a raid on a nursing home run by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity.The Minister further said that the details of the negotiations and the technicalities involved with the negotiations cannot be divulged now, as it would endanger the process of the release.
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