French woman kidnapped in crisis-hit Yemen

February 24, 2015 23:34

A French woman working in Yemen was kidnapped on Tuesday as President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi struggled to reassert his authority in the crisis-hit Arabian Peninsula nation.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said, meanwhile, that Iran had contributed to the collapse of the government's authority in Yemen, where a Shi'ite militia has seized the capital Sanaa.

The French woman, who was working for an international organisation in Sanaa, was abducted on Tuesday morning, France's foreign ministry said, urging all French citizens "to leave the country as fast as possible".

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