Pen Selwood Community Association AGM

17^th November 2017 at 19:30

Village Hall

Come and support your Community Association at its AGM followed by a talk by Ian Steadman.

Escape from Sorata

How Ian and Jenny Steadman got held hostage in Sorata, Bolivia in 2003.

Five died in Bolivia during the rescue operation of 800 trapped tourists on 26-09-2003. The rescue of 800 tourists –including some 50 foreigners- who got trapped by a roadblock of barricaded peasants in the northern Andean zone of Bolivia came to a tragic close in the wee hours of Sept. 22 with a death toll of five and nearly two dozen injured. Bolivia’s vice minister of the interior Jose Luis Harb said the mission “fulfilled its goal of rescuing the tourists who remained for a whole week in the town of Sorata, including a group of foreign citizens, plus lots of children and elderly people.”