Kidnaped Italy Doctor Found Chained in Tent
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BIANCO, Italy — A doctor’s four-month kidnap ordeal ended at dawn Wednesday when police found him chained inside a mountain tent in southern Italy.
Paramilitary police said Agostino De Pascale, 34, was so exhausted that they had to convince him they were not his guards.
De Pascale, long-bearded and starving, was seen signaling with a cigarette lighter from the tent above the village of Samo, in the Aspromonte mountains of Calabria.
Police said his relatives had paid a ransom of $560,000, but it appeared that the kidnapers had no intention of releasing him.
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