Gunmen capture two UN staff members in Sudan
[Al Arabiya Latest] Gunmen kidnapped two local staff members of the UNAMID joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping forces in Darfur on Saturday as tribesmen shot dead 38 people in southern Sudan, where inter-tribal violence escalated.
"This morning at 4:30 (0130 GMT), armed men attacked the UNAMID staff residence in Zalingei, Darfur, and abducted two civilian members of the staff, a man and a woman," said the spokesman, Noureddin Mezni.
The kidnappings mark the first abductions of UNAMID staff members, Mezni said, without providing details on their nationalities or identities.
Perhaps the kidnappers should hope none of the abductees are French. |
Posted by: Fred 2009-08-30 |