Dublin aid worker, 32, kidnapped in Sudan

POLICE units in Sudan are searching for an Irish woman who was kidnapped at gunpoint while working for an aid agency.

Sharon Cummins, a 32-year-old aid worker from Dublin with GOAL, was kidnapped along with a Ugandan colleague and Sudanese watchman yesterday evening.

The trio were taken by an unknown number of gunmen from their compound in the town of Kutum, north of Darfur.