Aid workers kidnapped in Afghanistan

Five Afghan aid workers, including three who worked for a Swedish aid agency, have been abducted in eastern Afghanistan, a police official said today.

Aid workers kidnapped in Afghanistan

Five Afghan aid workers, including three who worked for a Swedish aid agency, have been abducted in eastern Afghanistan, a police official said today.

The five – two doctors and an employee of the aid agency Swedish Committee for Afghanistan and two local government workers – were kidnapped on Thursday while driving in the province of Nuristan, said Ghalamullah Nuristani, the provincial deputy police chief.

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