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British woman who was kidnapped in Malawi rescued by police after shootout

Nusrat Osman
Nusrat Osman, a 47-year-old auditor and mother of two, was safe and ‘not too shaken’ after her ordeal, her brother said. Photograph: Family Handout

A British woman kidnapped in Malawi last week has been rescued by police after a shootout in which four of her alleged abductors were killed.

Nusrat Osman was abducted outside her home in the southern city of Blantyre on 11 September at about 12.30pm. Police had offered a reward of 30m Malawi kwacha (£12,950) for information leading to her rescue and the arrest of the perpetrators.

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