Irish aid worker kidnapped in Sudan

A 32-year-old Dublin woman is one of two aid workers kidnapped in Sudan.

Sharon Commins and a 42-year-old Ugandan woman work for the Irish charity GOAL.

They were taken by an armed gang of six men from their compound in the north Darfur town of Kutum at night.

It is the third kidnapping of foreign aid staff in the territory in four months.

A Sudanese guard was also taken but later released.