Afghan police rescue snatched aid worker

AFGHAN police rescued a German aid worker — who was snatched while dining with her husband at a restaurant in the capital Kabul — and arrested four suspected kidnappers in the sting operation yesterday, officials said.

Hundreds of police surrounded a house to free the 31-year-old woman in a raid in western Kabul not far from the area where she was taken captive on Saturday, said Interior Ministry spokesman Zemerai Bashary.

He said authorities have arrested and are interrogating “four suspects who are directly involved in this case”. He described the men as the ringleader and three of his friends.