{"id":28781,"date":"2016-09-21T03:11:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T03:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/canadian-reportedly-abducted-in-libya-government\/"},"modified":"2016-09-21T03:11:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T03:11:41","slug":"canadian-reportedly-abducted-in-libya-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/canadian-reportedly-abducted-in-libya-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian reportedly abducted in Libya, government aware of \u2018troubling\u2019 news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Canada\u2019s foreign ministry says it is \u201caware\u201d of reports that a Canadian citizen has been abducted in Libya, but it has not officially confirmed the kidnapping.}<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are aware of the troubling, yet unconfirmed report of the abduction of a Canadian citizen in Libya,\u201d wrote Global Affairs Canada spokesperson Austin Jean in an email early Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are diligently pursuing all appropriate channels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian national, who has yet to be identified, was reportedly taken by a criminal gang along with two Italians. Italy\u2019s Foreign Ministry has confirmed the abduction of two of its citizens, but declined to provide details.<\/p>\n<p>The three victims were working on airport projects and were abducted between the towns of Ghat and Tahala, near the border with Algeria early on Monday, Ghat\u2019s mayor Gomani Mohamad Saleh told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two Italians were working on a runway project at the airport but the Canadian was working on installing air aviation system,\u201d he said on Tuesday.<br \/>\n\u201cThe security authorities are following the incident closely \u2026 That\u2019s all the information we have so far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Numerous criminal and armed groups are active in Libya\u2019s vast southern desert, and al Qaeda-linked Islamist militants have long had a presence across the border between Libya and Algeria.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15143 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/caith104-35_2011_095838_high.jpg\" alt=\"In this March 2011 file photo, an anti-government rebel sits with an anti-aircraft weapon in front an oil refinery in Ras Lanouf, eastern Libya.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Canada\u2019s foreign ministry says it is \u201caware\u201d of reports that a Canadian citizen has been abducted in Libya, but it has not officially confirmed the kidnapping.} \u201cWe are aware of the troubling, yet unconfirmed report of the abduction of a Canadian citizen in Libya,\u201d wrote Global Affairs Canada spokesperson Austin Jean in an email early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[2686],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-28781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-global-news"],"bylines":[{"id":2686,"name":"Global News","slug":"global-news","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2686,"name":"Global News","slug":"global-news","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28781"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=28781"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=28781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}