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Kidnapped Chinese engineers freed in Afghanistan
KUNDUZ: Two Chinese engineers working on a road-building project in northern Afghanistan have been freed several months after being abducted, an Afghan provincial government spokesman said on Sunday. Ahmad Jawad Bedaar, spokesman for the governor of Faryab province, said the engineers had been held for about three months and were freed in a rescue operation on Saturday. He said no ransom had been paid, but gave no further details of the release and did not identify the abductors. The abduction of foreigners and Afghans for ransom has become a serious hazard in rural parts of Afghanistan. The Taliban have also made political demands in some cases. The Chinese engineers had been working on a road project in Faryab in Afghanistan's northwest. China has a number of economic projects in Afghanistan, including a multi-billion-dollar copper mining deal that is Afghanistan's largest outside investment. Posted by: Steve White 2010-04-26 |
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