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Kidnapped Kerala engineer Regi Joseph rescued in Libya

Kidnapped Kerala man Regi Joseph released from Libya

Kerala resident Regi Joseph, who was kidnapped in Libya, has been released. He was abducted, along with three colleagues, by anti-government rebels on 31 March this year. 

 

External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj announced that Raji Joseph, an IT engineer from Kerala, who was abducted in civil war-torn Libya, has been rescued thanks to the efforts Indian Ambassador Azar A H Khan and the Indian Embassy in Libya. 

 

43-year-old  Joseph was working in the Libyan capital Tripoli, as a computer engineer for two years. He was assigned to a project for the Civil Registration Authority and was abducted on the way to the office from Souk-al-Jumaa. His office had informed his wife, Shinuja, who works as a nurse in Libya about the abduction. 

 

Joseph is from Koorachundu in Kozhikode district.

 

 

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