العربيةPolice have managed to release Agaiby Atta Attallah, 45, the kidnapped Coptic carpenter, and his son Mina, 13, from the island of Al-Hammoudy, following a police ambush of the culprit’s hideout in Hamradom village, a hotspot of kidnappings of Copts in the province of Qena [Upper Egypt].
Agaiby Mosaad, one of the kidnapped’s relatives said “After failed negotiations between elderly families at the village of Yaseeneya and the island of Al-Hammoudy, and the chief kidnapper Ahmed Saleh Ahmed, elderly families made a verbal complained to the investigative police of Deshna, and his family members filed a report at the police station of Deshna after ascertaining that elderly families cannot free the kidnapped and restore them to their families.
Agaiby added that “police managed, within three hours from the filing of the report, to ambush the house of the accused and registered wanted man Ahmed Saleh in the village of Hamradom, but he managed to escaped before police arrived.
Agaiby clarified that the “police found the Coptic carpenter and his son Mina tied with metal chains and locks on both hands and feet.” He pointed out that the kidnappers left the abducted men without food or drink for lengthy hours.
