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24 May 2006 - 11:36 AMT

Azeri Newspaper Editor Held Hostage Three Foreigners

People’s Tribune newspaper editor-in-chief Sharif Salmanov his acquaintance Aynura Allahverdiyeva, who held hostage Turkish citizen Yilmaz Mahmoud, Bolgarian citizen Kocheva Ivanovna and her 7-year-old daughter Marchella Penova, were detained. The local prosecutor’s office has initiated a criminal case; investigation is being carried out, reported APA news agency.