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Red Cross doctor freed in Somalia

Monday 04 April 1994 23:02 BST
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An American doctor working for the International Committee of the Red Cross and abducted by Somali gunmen last last week has been released, AFP reports from Mogadishu. Alfred Petters, 39, a cholera expert, was kidnapped on Thursday as he drove from Benadir Hospital, south of Mogadishu, to the Red Cross headquarters a short distance away.

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