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Security forces in Colombia have rescued an Australian woman held captive for two weeks by a kidnapper who had demanded a US$30,000 ($40,000) ransom.
West Australian woman Bobbi April McGeachin, 22, was rescued from a home in the exclusive resort town of El Rodadero, near Santa Marta on Colombia's Caribbean coast, after a tip-off from Australian officials.
McGeachin had been able to raise the alarm with her family via the internet and they contacted Australian authorities.
Members of Colombia's anti-kidnapping squad and other agents rescued her on Monday and arrested a woman over the kidnapping.
Colombian army spokesman General Manuel Guzman said McGeachin had been invited to the country by her captor.
"The information that we have is that [the owner of the property], detained [McGeachin] in her house and was asking for US$30,000 to set her free," Guzman told the local television station Caracol.
- AAP
