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Judith Tebbutt: UK hostage kidnapped in Kenya freed
Source: BBC
A Briton seized in a raid in Kenya, in which her husband was killed, has been freed after six months held in Somalia.
Judith Tebbutt, 56, is being flown to Nairobi after a ransom, raised by her relatives, was paid for her release.
As she left Adado in Somalia, Mrs Tebbutt, from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, smiled and told reporters she was glad to be safe.
Her husband David, 58, was shot by a gang of six men at their remote holiday resort in Kiwayu, north of Lamu island.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17455284
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