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Mauritanian officials: Abducted Spanish aid workers located (1st Lead)
Dec 1, 2009, 15:16 GMT
Nouakchott - Mauritanian security officials on Tuesday said they have determined the location of three Spanish aid workers being held hostage, police told the German Press Agency dpa.
Military officials had begun negotiations with the hostage-takers, who were tracked down to an area roughly 150 kilometres north of the capital Nouakchott, according to police.
Mauritanian security forces launched a massive manhunt Monday, following the kidnapping the previous night of the aid workers - two men and a woman.
The aid workers were abducted at gunpoint as they were returning to Nouakchott, from the port city of Nouadhibou, near the border with the Western Sahara. Other members of the convoy managed to escape.
Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said there is strong evidence he Algerian-based al-Qaeda branch known as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb were behind the abduction.
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