Baku-APA. U.S. businessman Peter Jackson who was kidnapped on Aug. 2 in Honduras, was rescued early Monday in a town in the country's southern region, police said, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
Jackson was released by his captors in Iberia neighborhood in Choluteca city in the south, and was found disoriented and walking on a dirt road near the San Vicente de Paul home for elderly, in Enrique Weddle Boulevard, by a police patrol, the police said.
The police agents took him to the police station and later to the northern city of San Pedro Sula, some 240 kilometers from Tegucigalpa.
Jackson, a well-known hotel businessman and owner of the shrimp farm Deli in Choluteca, was kidnapped when he was on the way from his hotel to the shrimp farm.