Search for hostages after firefight
Published: 27/09/2010
AN URGENT search is under way to find a female British aid worker abducted in Afghanistan.
The woman, who is reported to be Scottish and in her 30s, was kidnapped in Kunar province, alongside three Afghans with whom she is thought to have been working.
The Development Alternatives Inc (DAI) worker was travelling in a convoy of two vehicles when insurgents attacked.
Officers chased the kidnappers and were engaged in a brief firefight before the men escaped.
Local tribes are believed to be assisting in the search for the missing people.
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: “We can confirm a British national has been abducted in Afghanistan.”
An attack was launched on DAI offices in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, in July, in which British private security guard Shaun Sexton was killed.
Three other security guards employed by the firm, two Afghans and one German, were also killed. Last month, British aid worker Dr Karen Woo was shot dead with nine colleagues in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, an Aberdeen backpacker was today facing another week in jail alongside Taliban terrorists.
Nicholas Bain, from Aberdeen, is being held at the Peshawar central jail alongside Taliban prisoners after an alleged unauthorised trip to see the Khyber Pass.
Mr Bain, 27, who is originally from Westhill, is set to appear in court on October 1, when lawyers will ask for his release.
He has reportedly claimed he was just a tourist, but authorities insisted he was detained in an off-limits area after becoming involved in a fight and arguing with a policeman.
Read more:
Scottish aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan – Evening Express.
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