Two IOM workers kidnapped in southern Libya

Staffers from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) were abducted Saturday in and area between Sabha and Brak Al-Shatti in southern Libya.
Sources on local media reported that the IOM personnel were kidnapped by unknown gunmen and contact was lost with them on their way to Sabha.
According to the sources, the kidnapped are Rania Kherma a Spanish-Palestinian worker and a Libyan staffer by the name Fayez KherAllah, besides a driver from Sabha city.
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