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| Two kidnapped S. Koreans rescued in Afghanistan |
| 2010-12-17 |
| (KUNA) -- Two South Korean construction workers were rescued after being briefly kidnapped by person or persons unknown in Afghanistan earlier this week, Seoul's foreign ministry said Thursday, Yonhap News Agency reported. The two Koreans, both supervisors at a road construction site in the northern Afghan province of Samangan, were kidnapped by four gunnies on Dec. 13 while traveling to their workplace in a vehicle along with one local driver and two bodyguards, the report said. According to South Korea's public broadcaster KBS, the driver managed to escape and report to police. The police and the military rescued all the hostages after an exchange of gunfire, said KBS. The local media cited the Afghan police as identifying the assailants as the Taliban and saying that a Taliban capo was killed in the shootout. |
| Posted by:Fred |