UN workers may have been separated

THERE were fears last night Irish UN worker Annetta Flanigan and her fellow hostages may have been taken to separate locations as her captors seek to evade Afghan authorities.

The Taliban splinter group known as Jaish-e-Muslimeen or Army of Muslims holding Ms Flanigan said they had moved Ms Flanigan and they had also relocated her two UN colleagues, Filipino Angelito Nayan and Kosovan Shqipe Habibi.

The group's spokesman Akbar Agha said if one of the election workers was found, the other two would be executed.