Weatherday: Kidnap and siege

A village in Laos rainforest, 2006.

A mix of sunny spells and showers, some of which will be heavy. Possibility of thunderstorms.

Temperature up to 14deg in moderate to fresh and gusty winds from the west, which will ease later.

On this day in 1975, Dutch industrialist Dr Tiede Herema was abducted by the Provisional IRA in Limerick. He was released 32 days later after a two-week siege by gardai and army of a house in Monasterevin.

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