Three Italians kidnapped in southern Mali, church says

Armed men have kidnapped an Italian couple and their son in southern Mali, their church said on Friday.

A spokesperson for the Jehovah's Witnesses church in neighbouring Senegal said the three - all adults - were living in Mali for personal reasons and were not serving as missionaries.

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