– 3 SPANISH JOURNALISTS KIDNAPPED NEAR ALEPPO, SYRIA

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3 Spanish journalists who went missing after entering Syria are feared to have been kidnapped, according to reports.

Antonio Pampliega, Jose Manuel Lopez and Angel Sastre disappeared after entering the county through Turkey on 07/10/2015,, according to the Spanish Federation of Press Associations (FAPE).

Each was a freelance reporter who had been working in the city of Aleppo, in Syria’s north.

“We don’t know (if they were together) doing their investigative reports in Aleppo, just that another three Spanish journalists were kidnapped in the same area nearly a year ago,” the BBC quoted FAPE president Elsa Gonzalez as saying.

The Spanish foreign ministry reportedly said it was “aware of the situation” and was “working on it.”

Two other Spanish journalists, Javier Espinosa and Ricardo Garcia Vilanova, were kidnapped in Syria last year and in 03/205 were released after 194 days in captivity.

Militant extremist groups in the country, most notably the Islamic State, have been known to abduct Western journalists, ordeals that sometimes end in publicized beheading videos.

News of the possible abductions comes one day after four Italian construction workers were reportedly kidnapped near an oil facility in Libya.

Related topics ;

04/2015 – 5 LIBYAN REPORTERS SLAUGHTERED BY ISIS 
01/2010 – 2 FRENCH JOURNALISTS SNATCHED BY TALIBAN  
03/2007 – ALAN JOHNSTON KIDNAPPING 
02/2002 – THE MURDER OF DANIEL PEARL  

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