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Tuesday, January 5, 1999 Published at 13:49 GMT


World: Asia-Pacific

Taiwan kidnap victim rescued after international police effort


Police in Taiwan say they've cooperated with security forces in mainland China and the United States to rescue a Taiwan citizen who was kidnapped in Los Angeles last month.

The director of the Taiwan Criminal Investigation Bureau, Yang Zijing, told reporters that security forces had arrested two suspects in China and the United States, and were still searching for a third member of a the gang.

Kidnappers abducted the son of a Taiwan businessman who was studying abroad, and demanded that his family pay a ransom of one-and-a-half million dollars to an address in Fuzhou in Eastern China.

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