[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. |
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