Chad says U S missionary kidnapped by rebels

N'DJAMENA, Oct 18 (Reuters) A U S evangelical church missionary has been kidnapped by rebels in northern Chad, a Chadian interior ministry official said today.

''The governor of the northern BET region has told me that an American priest has been kidnapped in the Tibesti (mountains) by remaining members of the MDJT rebel movement,'' Secretary of State for the Interior Abderamane Djasnabaille told Reuters.

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