Rescued UN official Sufiul Anam expresses gratitude to PM Hasina

Lieutenant Colonel (retd) AKM Sufiul Anam, a UN official who was abducted in southern Yemen in February 2022, expressed his gratitude to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

A press release issued by the Prime Minister’s Office informed that he met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with his family at Ganabhaban on Thursday and expressed his gratitude.

AKM Sufiul Anam was working as a Field Security Coordination Officer (Head) of the United Nations Department of Safety and Security in Aden.

He served in the Bangladesh Army from 1977 to 2005 and has been working at the UN since his retirement.

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) kidnapped Anam and four others in Yemen's southern province of Abyan as they were returning to the port city of Aden after a field mission in February 2022.

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