An American woman and her Ugandan driver were released unharmed five days after they were kidnapped in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park.
Nairobi - An American woman and her Ugandan driver were released unharmed five days after they were kidnapped in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park, according to a military spokesman.
The identity of the kidnappers remained unknown. A ransom was paid by Wild Frontiers, the tour company that organised the excursion, Karemire said, but the amount was not disclosed. The kidnappers had used one of the hostages' phones to make an initial demand of $500 000. Four men had held them up at gunpoint Tuesday evening and then "grabbed two out of four ... before disappearing with them," police said in a statement. The other two tourists escaped unharmed.But just across the border in Congo, no fewer than 100 armed groups hold territory, some of which have kidnapped tourists visiting that country's Virunga National Park, a 3 000 square mile tract of tropical rain forest famed for its gorillas and active volcanoes.
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