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Four Mercy Corps employees kidnapped in Balochistan
[Dawn] Four members of an international NGO are suspected to have been kidnapped in northern Balochistan, officials said on Friday.A vehicle carrying four employees of the Mercy Corps organisation went missing in the Shankai area of the Qila Saifullah district. The charity workers went missing on Thursday and "may have been abducted," Abdul Majid, the local administrative chief in Qila Saifullah district. "Nobody has so far claimed responsibility. We have reports that they have been taken to the nearby tribal area," Majid added. All four employees were Pakistani nationals, while three of them were residents of Islamabad, officials told DawnNews. The provincial coordinator of the organisation was among those abducted, government official Akbar Durrani told a private TV channel. "We are investigating who is behind this handiwork. We have alerted the police and security forces to recover them," Durrani said. No one from Mercy Corps was immediately contactable. Qila Saifullah is located 200 kilometres north of Quetta. Posted by: Fred 2010-02-20 |
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