From correspondents in Middle East, 01:31 PM IST

Nine foreigners have been kidnapped in the restive northwestern Yemeni province of Saada, the state news agency Saba reported Sunday.

The agency said a German medical appliances engineer, his wife and their three children and two German nurses as well as a British engineer and a female teacher from South Korea were abducted Friday by Islamic rebels.

(Staff Writer, © IANS)