Security services have managed to arrest five suspects who kidnapped a French aid worker in Al-Zaidiah of Hodeidah governorate on Saturday night, security sources said.
The sources said that the suspects were held on Sunday night at a checkpoint of Al-Qanawas located in port city of Hodeidah, pointing out that three of the arrestees are from Shabwah governorate and one of Saada. They did not spoke about the identity of the fifth one.
The kidnapped French is an aid worker of the International Committee of the Red Cross as he was travelling from north Yemen to the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, the ICRC said on Sunday.
Media sources said the French was with two Yemeni drivers who were released shortly afterwards.
Yemeni analysts did not rule out that terrorist groups were behind the abduction of the man, indicating that most the captors were from Shabwah governorate that Al-Qaeda are active.
A Swiss woman working as a teacher was also kidnapped in Hodeida in March. French news agency AFP reported that she is being held by al-Qaeda after being taken to the far eastern province of Shabwa.
Meanwhile, the fate of a Saudi diplomat, Abdullah Al-Khalidi, kidnapped in the port city of Aden is still uncertain after three weeks of abduction.
The diplomat have been holding by Al-Qaeda for three weeks after being abducted outside his home by Al-Qaeda militants who called for the release of militants held in Saudi prisons in return for his release.
The Saudi Embassy in Sana'a has cautioned against plans of Al-Qaeda to target it, asking all its officials and employees to be alert and take all precautions, diplomatic sources said.