There is considerable
anxiety in Italy about the fate of two Italian workers and an
Canadian colleague who were kidnapped in Libya on Monday.
The workers were abducted by armed men at dawn in the
southern Libyan city of Ghat, near to the Algerian border.
Ghat is controlled by the Tripoli-based government of
national unity.
All three kidnapped people worked for a company that
performed maintenance operations at Ghat airport - Con.I.Cos,
which is based in Mondovì, near the northern Italian city of
Cuneo.
Sources said the kidnapped Italians are Bruno Cacace, a
56-year-old from Borgo San Dalmazzo, near Cuneo, and Danilo
Calonego, a 66-year-old from the province of Belluno.
Local media said the adduction was not carried out by
al-Qaeda.
Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni told Rome-based daily la
Repubblica that it was too soon to know what sort of group the
kidnappers are.
Two Italian workers who were taken hostage in Libya last
year were killed in circumstances that have not yet been fully
clarified in a firefight in city of Sabratha in March.
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