ʻO Thomas Ossel, mai Bedfordshire, ua pepehi ʻia ʻo ia ma ka ʻāwae a ʻo kona kaikaina ʻo Jack i ʻeha akā ua ola.
Noho nā kaikunāne ma kahi hale hoʻokipa backpacker ma Margarita Island, kekahi o nā wahi mākaʻikaʻi nui o ka ʻāina. Ua haʻalele lākou i kahi pā i ke ahiahi o ka Pōʻakahi a e hoʻi ana lākou i ka home i ka wā i hālāwai ai lākou me nā pōā.
Manaʻo ka poʻe noiʻi ua hoʻāʻo ka poʻe pū e hao i nā kāne a ua wehe ʻia ke ahi i ko lākou kūʻē ʻana, e like me ka ʻōlelo a Luis Garavin, kahi mākaʻi kūloko.
Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Jacqueline Baxter, he hoaaloha o ka ʻohana: "I kēia manawa ua huakaʻi ko lākou makuakāne i Venezuela a maopopo ʻaʻole hiki i ko lākou makuahine ke hana i kahi ʻōlelo. Aia nō ke keiki ʻōpio i waho, no laila ke pilikia nui nei ʻo ia.
I loko o kahi hoʻolaha pūnaewele hou ʻo Thomas Ossel, he kanaka kinai ahi, ua wehewehe ʻo ia i kona hele ʻana i nā ʻāina he 40 a ke manaʻo nei e hiki i 100. Wahi a kahi pūnaewele pūnaewele ʻo ia he 28, a ʻo kona kaikunāne he 21.
Ua piha ka mahalo i ka pūnaewele puni honua Facebook. Ua ʻōlelo kekahi hoaaloha: "ʻO kāna ʻakaʻaka kekahi o nā ʻano kupaianaha i lilo ai ʻo ia i kanaka maikaʻi loa." Ua ʻōlelo kekahi: “ʻAʻole hiki iaʻu ke manaʻoʻiʻo ua hiki mai kēia. Ua noʻonoʻo mau wau iā Tom e ʻelemakule ana ma kahi kahakai ma kekahi wahi.
Ua ʻōlelo kekahi ʻōlelo a ke Keʻena ʻĀina e hāʻawi ana i ke kōkua consular no ka ʻohana.
Ua aʻo aku ke Keʻena ʻē aʻe he kiʻekiʻe ka hewa o ke alanui ma Venezuela, a ʻo ka ʻaihue ʻana i nā mea kaua a me nā "kidnappings hōʻike" - nā ʻaihue manawaleʻa e ʻaihue kālā - he mau mea maʻamau.
ʻO Venezuela kekahi o nā helu pepehi kanaka kiʻekiʻe loa ma Latin America. I ka makahiki i hala, ua hōʻike ʻia he 48 mau pepehi kanaka no kēlā me kēia 100,000 mau kānaka.
