Kidnappers say U.S. hostage in Pakistan still alive

Source: Reuters

ISLAMABAD, Feb 23 (Reuters) - John Solecki, an American kidnapped in Pakistan while working for a U.N. refugee agency, was still alive, a spokesman for the separatist group holding him said on Monday after media reports that he had been killed.

Pakistani television channels had run a headline saying the Press Club in the southwestern city of Quetta had received an anonymous telephone call saying Solecki had been killed and his body would be left in a couple of hours.

A spokesman for the previously unheard of Baluchistan Liberation United Front (BLUF) later telephoned a Pakistani news agency office in Quetta to deny any call had been made from the group, and to confirm that Solecki was alive.

"He is alive," a spokesman, Shahak Baluch, said in a call to Online news agency. "We have not made any call."


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Solecki is suffering from heart and kidney problems.

Things are not looking good for this poor man and his family.