TORONTO, Oct 14: The Latest on the U.S.-Canadian family rescued from captivity (all times EDT):
11:35 p.m.
Canadian ex-hostage Joshua Boyle says the Haqqani network in Afghanistan killed his infant daughter in captivity and raped his wife.
Boyle gave a statement after landing in Canada late Friday with his American wife and three young children.
Caitlan Coleman and Boyle were rescued Wednesday, five years after they had been abducted by a Taliban-linked extremist network while in Afghanistan as part of a backpacking trip. Coleman was pregnant at the time and had four children in captivity.
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Government officials said Pakistani forces carried out the rescue mission based on U.S. intelligence information.
The final leg of the family’s journey was an Air Canada flight Friday from London to Toronto.
9:05 p.m.
U.S.-Canadian couple Caitlan Coleman and Joshua Boyle have landed in Canada with their three young children, five years after they were kidnapped in Afghanistan.
Boyle provided a written statement to The Associated Press saying, “God has given me and my family unparalleled resilience and determination.”
Coleman and Boyle were rescued Wednesday, five years after they had been abducted by a Taliban-linked extremist network while in Afghanistan as part of a backpacking trip. Coleman was pregnant at the time and had three children in captivity.
Government officials said Pakistani forces executed the rescue mission based on U.S. intelligence information.
The final leg of the family’s journey was an Air Canada flight Friday from London to Toronto.
6 p.m.
The parents of an American woman freed with her family after five years of captivity say they are elated, but also angry at their son-in law for taking their daughter to Afghanistan.
“Taking your pregnant wife to a very dangerous place, to me, and the kind of person I am, is unconscionable,” Caitlan Coleman’s father, Jim, told ABC News.
Caitlan Coleman and Joshua Boyle were rescued Wednesday, five years after they had been abducted by a Taliban-linked extremist network while in Afghanistan as part of a multi-nation backpacking trip.
Two Pakistani security officials say the family left by plane from Islamabad on Friday.
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