Police free sportsman's abducted mother
19/02/2005 - 14:20:50Venezuelan police stormed a mountain camp and rescued the mother of baseball pitcher who plays for the Detroit Tigers in the US.
Kidnappers had demanded a ransom of about €5.8m for the release of the mother of pitcher Ugueth Urbina.
The police raid ended an ordeal that lasted more than five months for 54-year-old Maura Villarreal, who was rescued unharmed.
At least one of her abductors was killed, police said.
Urbina was reunited with his mother late on Friday at a police station in Caracas, where he hurriedly slipped past reporters to go inside, saying only: “I’m happy. Excuse me, but now I just want to see her.”
