New Delhi: Abducted Christian priest from Kerala Father Tom Uzhunnalil has been released. “I am happy to inform that Father Tom Uzhunnalil has been rescued,” External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said in a tweet. Father Tom Uzhunnalil, who was abducted in April 2016 from Aden, was earlier this year stated to have been “alive” by the Yemen Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdulmalik Abduljalil Al-Mekhlafi during his visit to India. “In compliance with the His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, Oman in coordination with the Yemeni parties have managed find a Vatican priest. He has been transferred to Muscat,” a report in Oman Daily Observer said.