Chemist’s rescue mission saved doctoral student trapped in Isis war zone
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Katrina Krämer2019-01-14T13:37:00
Lund University analytical chemistry professor hired mercenaries to free her PhD student and his family from Islamic State territory
It sounds like the plot of an action film, but a chemist at a Swedish university organised a daring rescue of her Iraqi doctoral student and his family after they became trapped in an Islamic State (IS) war zone. The rescue took place in 2014 but has only recently come to light.