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British paratroop liaison team arrives

    NAIROBI

    A liaison team from the 1st Battalion of the British Army Parachute
    Regiment has arrived in Freetown where discussions continue to free seven
    troops abducted by renegade soldiers known as the West Side Boys, news
    reports said, quoting a British military spokesman in Freetown.

    The official, Lt-Cmdr Tony Cramp, described the arrival of the “small
    liaison team” as “standard procedure”.
    A British army information officer at the Permanent Joint Headquarters in
    Britain, told IRIN on Tuesday that some 150 paratroopers were in Dakar,
    the capital of Senegal, some 880 km northwest of Freetown. He described
    the measure “a sensible precautionary contingency plan”.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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