12 million US Dollars has been demanded by kidnappers for the release of three French aid workers who were kidnapped in southeastern Yemen.
According to tribal sources the kidnappers are Al-Qaeda members. Security officials in Hadramawt province said that kidnappers were ‘an Islamist extremist group’ but they didn’t name any organisation. Al-Qaeda has denied of kidnapping three French aid workers.
Foreigner in Yemen has been kidnapped frequently and in last 15 years more than 200 foreigners have been kidnapped in Yemen and later all of them later were freed after ransom.