Hostage family flies home
I ■NZPA-Reuter London. i The British Tyler familyl ■has flown home to an emo-i Itional welcome from relatives land told how at times they! ■had thought their eight-month captivity by Ethiopian guerrillas would never end. Mr Lindsay Tyler, a veterinary surgeon, his wife, Stephanie, and two children Robert, aged 8. and Sarah, aged 5, looked sunburnt but tired as they stepped off the Sudanese plane from Khartoum at Heathrow Airport. The family were unconditionally released by the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front last week. Waiting on the tarmac to greet them were Mr Tyler’s parents, and a dozen or so mtore relatives in the V.I.P. suite, which had been put at |their disposal. ! Mr Tyler, close to tears, told reporters: “I am absolutely thrilled to be home. Our feelings went up and down.” “Some days we were de pressed at the thought it was going on forever, other days we realised a lot of people were doing a lot of work to get us out.” The Tylers then quicklj I drove off to a belated Christ jmas dinner with their family
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