Father of Croatian abducted in Egypt calls for son's release

[WorldNews]

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The father of Tomislav Salopek, a Croatian national who was abducted in Cairo and has been threatened with execution by the Islamic State group, urged the kidnappers to release his son. Nothing else," Zlatko Salopek told AFP at the family's home in the eastern Croatian town of Vrpolje. In a video released on Wednesday, a man identifying himself as Tomislav Salopek, working in Egypt for French geoscience company CGG, read from a sheet of paper that he would be executed within 48 hours if Egypt's government failed to release Muslim women held in prisons.

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