
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, April 3, 1994                   TAG: 9404030107
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: B-5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: NAIROBI, KENYA                                LENGTH: Short

AMERICAN AID WORKER STILL HELD BY SOMALIS

Intensive negotiations failed to win the release Saturday of an American relief worker kidnapped by Somali gunmen. A U.N. worker from Nigeria seized the same day escaped his captors.

Alfred Peters, 36, a water and sanitation engineer from Denver, was kidnapped Thursday by gunmen who stopped his car a few hundred yards from a United Nations checkpoint. Peters had been sent to Mogadishu to help stem a cholera epidemic.

- Associated Press

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