Libyan security forces free kidnapped doctor
The Interior Ministry of Libya’s UN-backed government has said that it freed a doctor who was kidnapped in the capital Tripoli on 1st December.
Security forces arrested the kidnappers and freed the doctor, who is now in a good health condition, the ministry said in a statement.
Proper legal procedures were taken against the arrested kidnappers “so that fair legal penalty is taken against them,” the statement added.
Siddiq Khalfallah Ben Della, a 66-year-old university professor and well-known orthopedic surgeon and deputy head of a local hospital, was kidnapped in Tripoli on 1st December when his car was ambushed by four armed uniformed men, according to the United Nations Support Mission in Libya.
Libya has been mired in a state of insecurity and chaos following the ouster and killing of its late leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
Hauwa Mustapha
