Gunmen from north Yemen kidnap Italian security officer

An Italian worker in Yemen was kidnapped by unknown gunmen on late Sunday afternoon near the embassy in the capital Sana’a, security official said.

 In a statement to Reuters, a spokesman for the Italian Foreign Ministry in Rome said a security officer who is a member of the country’s Carabinieri military police had been seized in Yemen and that a crisis committee had been activated.

 The spokesman declined to give further details. A security source in Yemen, who told Reuters the kidnap victim was a diplomat, said he had been near the Italian embassy when “men came by in a car and took him by force”.

Yemen defense ministry said the Yemeni foreign minister, Abu Bakr al-Qirbi, met with the Italian ambassador to discuss the matter and that the security has been in pursuit of the kidnappers.

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