2 young Canadian white women volunteering for Youth Challenge International kidnapped in Ghana

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2 young Canadian women kidnapped in Ghana

Last Updated Thursday, June 6, 2019 3:35PM EDT

Two young Canadian women have been kidnapped in the West African nation of Ghana, CTV News has learned.

The 19-year-old and 20-year-old women were abducted from the Ahodwo district in the country’s second-largest city on Tuesday evening.

CTV News has confirmed the women were volunteering for Youth Challenge International, a Toronto-based non-governmental organization operating in Ghana.


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Photos Of Kidnapped Canadians Pop Up
June 7, 2019

IMAGES of the two kidnapped Canadian women have popped up in Kumasi as the security agencies up their game to rescue them.

Lauren Patricia Catherine Tilley, 19, and Bailey Jordan Chitty, 20, both students working as volunteers in Ghana for an international development organisation, Youth Challenge International, were allegedly abducted on Tuesday night and taken to unknown destination by some gun-wielding men.

The captors had ambushed the young women on a driveway at Ahodwo-Nhyiaeso near the Royal Gulf Club in Kumasi, whilst returning from a food joint in an Uber car.

They were bundled into a Toyota Camry saloon car and whisked away after stepping out of the car to go to their hostel at the Silver Spring avenue.

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Hey! I got the same passport as those guys.
 

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Wednesday, 12 June 2019


Kidnapped Canadians rescued; 2 suspects arrested

MyNewsGh.com can exclusively report that the two Canadians who were kidnapped last week have been rescued according to a police source in Kumasi.

They were reportedly rescued on Wednesday morning in a suburb of Kumasi by a police SWAT team our source revealed.

It is gathered that the driver of the vehicle used for the kidnapping who is a mechanic and one other person have since been arrested and are assisting the security agencies to unravel the identity of the others.

Our source reveal that the two victims are safe. It would be recalled that two Canadians aged 19 and 20 respectively were kidnapped in the Ashanti Regional Capital of Kumasi last week.
 
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