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The woman, 47-year-old Nusrat Osman, was safe and had been
reunited with her family in the southern African country,
Malawian police said in a statement.
They said four suspected kidnappers, who were armed with an
AK-47 rifle and a pistol, were killed in a shootout with police.
A senior Malawian police officer was wounded and was in stable
condition in a hospital, the Malawi Police Service said.
Osman, a mother of two young children who reportedly works for
an auditing firm in Malawi, was abducted around lunchtime on
Sept. 11 in the southern city of Blantyre. British media have
reported that she is originally from the city of Leicester.
Malawi police had said they were looking for four men who had
used a gray car to kidnap her. The motive was not clear, police
said, and the suspects had not contacted Osman’s family or
authorities.
Authorities had offered a reward of about $17,000 for
information leading to Osman’s rescue and the arrest and
conviction of the kidnappers.
Police said they were still investigating the motive behind
Osman's abduction.
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