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Kidnapped Australian and his assist



Tuesday, March 31, 1998 Published at 12:33 GMT 13:33 UK 


 
World: Asia-Pacific

Kidnapped Australian and his assistant to be release on Thursday



The Foreign Ministry of Thailand says that an Australian aid worker and his
Thai assistant, thought to have been captured by Burmese guerrillas, will be
released on Thursday. 

The Burmese military government has informed the Thai officials that the two
are safe. 

They were detained last Friday by a pro-Rangoon guerrilla force in the Moei
river district separating Thailand and Burma. 

A Thai Foreign Ministry spokesman said that the guerrilla group Democratic
Karen Buddhist Army insisted that the two were not kidnapped but invited to
film damage done by a rival group, the Karen National Union. 

>From the newsroom of the BBC World Service