BBC reporter ‘kidnapped in Gaza’

Police investgating reports of kidnap of reporter from British broadcaster.

BBC's Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston sits inside an armoured car in the southern Gaza strip in this August 17, 2005
Johnston has been working with the BBC in Gaza for three years [File photo]
Johnston, a Scot and British citizen, has been working as the Gaza correspondent for the state-funded British broadcaster for three years. 

The British embassy said they were investigating the reported kidnap.

 

The last foreigner to be kidnapped in Gaza was a Peruvian photographer from the French news agency, Agence France-Presse, in early January.

 

The AFP photographer was released unharmed after nearly one week in captivity.

Source: News Agencies