Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for missing tourists

By Lelethu Mquqo
10 December 2011

The radical Islamist Al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of five tourists, including a South African, in Mali last month.

The South African, whose name has not been revealed, was snatched with a group from a restaurant in Timbuktu.

He had been on his way home from Britain.

In the report, there was no mention of the welfare of the victims, nor any information about a German man shot dead when he resisted the attack.