Matthew recovering in hospital
1 | Yesterday Matthew Scott, a 19-year- | 3 | He managed to reach an Indian | |||
old British tourist, escaped from his | village where he was rescued by an army | |||||
kidnappers in a Colombian jungle. | unit. Matthew added: "The villagers gave | |||||
Matthew was kidnapped with another Brit, | me some soup and beans with a little salt | |||||
Mark Henderson, 31, and six foreign | and three oranges. Those are the only | |||||
tourists 12 days earlier. They had been | things I've eaten these past few days. | |||||
with a group which travelled from the | The kidnappers weren't giving us any | |||||
Caribbean coast into the mountains of | food." | |||||
Colombia. The kidnappers burst into their | 4 | News of his amazing safe return was | ||||
huts during the night and took them | greeted with joy by his family back in | |||||
hostage at gunpoint. | Britain. Matthew's mum Kate, who spoke | |||||
2 | Brave Matthew Scott escaped by | to him by phone, said: "We are absolutely | ||||
sliding down a mountainside as his | thrilled. We hear he's now recovering in | |||||
kidnappers marched him along a | hospital. He only has some cuts and | |||||
mountain ridge with the other hostages. | bruises. We just hope that we will soon | |||||
Matthew said: "We were walking in a line | hear that the rest of the hostages are free | |||||
with the kidnappers. It was raining in the | too." | |||||
mountains and we couldn't see a thing. | ||||||
I quickly slipped down the mountain. I'm | ||||||
lucky I didn't break my legs." |