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SMITHS FALLS, Ont. — Joshua Boyle, a Canadian who was rescued with his family last week by Pakistani troops, said Tuesday that his wife had to be rushed to the hospital and remains there.

Boyle told The Associated Press in an email that his wife, Caitlan Coleman, was admitted Monday. His email did not specify why she was taken to the hospital.

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“My first concern has to be the health of my wife and children,” Boyle wrote.

He also declined to offer any details about his wife’s condition following an inquiry from The Canadian Press.

“We really just need the world to have some patience and compassion, some propriety and decorum,” he wrote in an email. “Please, give it a couple days.”

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Boyle, his American wife and their three children were rescued Wednesday, five years after the couple was abducted in Afghanistan on a backpacking trip. Four children were born in captivity.

Joshua Boyle said after landing at Toronto’s airport on Friday that the Taliban-linked Haqqani network killed an infant daughter and raped his wife during the years they were held.