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5 Afghan UN workers missing in northern Afghanistan

16 April 2010 14:06 (UTC +04:00)

Baku - APA. The United Nations said five of its Afghan employees were missing Friday amid reports their vehicles were hijacked in the same northern province where fierce fighting killed four German soldiers and three Afghan police the previous day, APA reports.
Word of the U.N. workers’ disappearance in Baghlan province followed twin bombings Thursday targeting foreign companies in the southern city of Kandahar that killed at least three people.
A Baghlan police official said the U.N. employees had been kidnapped by Taliban insurgents.Baghlan’s deputy police chief, Zalmay Mangal, said Taliban operatives hijacked the workers’ vehicles Thursday and the U.N. employees were being held in Dahana-i-Ghori district of Baghlan province.