Dead or alive? Still no news on Malaysian abducted in Ivory Coast

PETALING JAYA: The whereabouts of a Malaysian abducted in Ivory Coast almost five months ago still remains unknown.

Pandian Chelliah, 47, his French boss and Sifca Group founder Yves Lambelin, Lambelin's assistant Raoul Adeossi from Benin and Novotel hotel's French director Stphane Frantz di Rippel were abducted from the same hotel in Abidjan on April 4 during the height of the civil unrest there.