Libya Tracks Down Abducted Serbians' Kidnappers

The Serbian foreign ministry on Sunday set up a crisis response team after the two employees of the country's embassy in Tripoli, Sladjana Stankovic and Jovica Stepic, were abducted near the Libyan town of Sabrath.

The ministry said the Libyan authorities have located the abductors who it said are still in Sabrath, and arrested one of them, although the two Serbs remain missing.

"Local security services are doing their best to resolve the problem. Security measures are at the highest level and we believe the Libyan authorities are willing to resolve the situation," said Veljko Odalovic, a secretary at the ministry.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told Serbian public broadcaster RTS that he is in constant communication with the Libyan authorities.

"We hope to resolve this situation in the upcoming 48 hours with a positive outcome," Vucic said.

Stankovic and Stepic were abducted while on their way to Tunisia.

They were in a convoy of cars, in which Serbian ambassador Oliver Potezica was also travelling with his family, although he managed to escape the abductors.

"The attackers staged a car crash, they hit an embassy car from the back and when the driver got out of one of our cars, they pulled him into their car," Potezica told Tanjug news agency.

According to Potezica, they then forceed Stankovic to leave her car and get into theirs before driving off.

"It was like in the film," Potezica said.

A commander in the Sabratha Military Council, which is in charge of the area's security and loyal to a militia alliance which controls Tripoli, told AFP newsagency that "all security branches are on full alert in the city since the Serbians were abducted".

"There are checkpoints everywhere, and we are...

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