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Children German family kidnapped alive in Yemen: reports
Dec 23, 2009, 8:12 GMT
Berlin - The three children of a German family kidnapped in Yemen have appeared in a video sent to the German government, Bild newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The video reportedly showed that the children aged one, three and five were still alive. The newspaper quoted a government official as saying, 'The children look exhausted.'
The condition of the parents, who had worked in a hospital in Saada province, remained unclear.
Foreign Office spokesmen refused to confirm or deny having received the video, thought to have been recorded in recent weeks, and said they were 'continuing to look for a resolution.'
The family was abducted in June, along with two other German women and a Korean woman who were later found, shot.
A German diplomat, Juergen Chrobog, is negotiating the family's release.
Chrobog, formerly Germany's most senior career diplomat as joint head of the Foreign Office, was himself kidnapped with his family in Yemen, in 2005.
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