Guerrillas free hostage
NZPA-Reuter San Salvador] A Dutch businessman, Frits Schuitema, has been freed unharmed by his Leftwing guerrilla kidnappers after 36 days in captivity, the police have said. Mr Schuitema, manager of the Philips Electrical Company in San Salvador, was found by a passing taxi driver about 4km from the
centre of El Salvador’s capi-l tai, close to his home. The guerrillas from the Armed Forces of National Resistance were still holding two British bankers,, lan Massie and Michael Chatterton, and a Japanese businessman, Takakazu Suzuki, as hostages. Mr Schuitema was the only one of the four kidnap victims whose release the
guerrillas did not link to de-1 mand for the freeing of; what they called political'’ prisoners in El Salvador. He was left blindfolded by his captors. But as soon as they had gone, he ripped off the blindfold and began to run. The taxi driver found him a few minutes later. I Philips was believed to; have paid the guerrillas a] ransom of SIM.
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