New deadline for UN hostages in Afghanistan

An Afghan militant group has repeated a threat to kill three foreign UN workers as they extended a deadline to tomorrow evening.

An Afghan militant group has repeated a threat to kill three foreign UN workers unless Taliban prisoners are freed.

A representative of the group said the fate of the hostages would be decided tomorrow.

Annetta Flanigan from Co Armagh was one of the workers taken captive in the Afghan capital of Kabul a fortnight ago.