Bangladeshi UN worker meets PM after freed from Al Qaeda in Yemen

A Bangladeshi citizen working for the United Nations has been freed after a year and a half abduction by Al-Qaeda in Yemen, the prime minister's office said.

"I never thought I would return home," Akam Sofyol Anam told reporters in Dhaka, following his return a day earlier, calling the last 18 months "horrifying".

In February 2022, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) kidnapped Anam and four others as they returned to Yemen's southern port city of Aden after a field mission while working for UN Department of Safety and Security.