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2 Bangladeshi aid workers kidnapped in northern Afghanistan
Two aid workers from Bangladesh were reportedly kidnapped by unknown gunmen while they were travelling in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, it has been reported.The two aid workers were working with Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) and were abducted as they were going from the restive Kunduz to Baghlan province. According to the local media reports citing BRAC officials, the two hostages have been identified as BRAC Afghanistan’s chief engineer Hazi Shawkat and chief accountant Md Sirajul Islam Khan. No group including the Taliban militants has so far claimed responsibility behind the abduction of the two aid workers so far. This comes as the security situation in northern provinces specifically the northern Kunduz and Baghlan have sharply deteriorated during the recent months amid rampant Taliban-led insurgency. The latest kidnapping incident of BRAC officials comes almost four years after a group of armed militants attacked the organization’s office in Ghor province. The incident in May 2012 left one official dead while a engineer was killed and six others were abducted in a separate incident in December 2010. Posted by: badanov 2016-03-20 |
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