Efforts intensify to free kidnapped aid workers

EFFORTS to free kidnapped aid worker Sharon Commins intensified last night amid growing uncertainty about those responsible for the abduction.

Efforts intensify to free kidnapped aid workers

The 32-year-old GOAL worker was kidnapped along with two others on Friday at the GOAL compound in Kutum in the stricken Darfur region of Sudan. A Sudanese watchman was later released.

The Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed yesterday that Irish officials sent to Sudan in an attempt to secure Ms Commins’ release had landed safely in the capital city, Khartoum.

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