Language

Don't you have an account with Pajhwok Afghan News?

Click here to subscribe.

3 Turkish engineers abducted in Jawzjan

3 Turkish engineers abducted in Jawzjan

author avatar
2 Jul 2011 - 16:34
3 Turkish engineers abducted in Jawzjan
author avatar
2 Jul 2011 - 16:34

SHIBERGHAN (PAN): Unidentified gunmen kidnapped three Turkish engineers in the northern province of Jawzjan, police said Saturday.

The three were working with a trade company dealing in animal skins called Post Aaq Muradbai Company. They were seized from the Khwaja Dokoh-Shabarghan highway on Friday night on their way to neighbouring Faryab province, provincial police chief Ibrahim told Pajhwok Afghan News.

The Turkish engineers were travelling in a car from Aqcha district to Andkhoy district in Faryab to visit a project site when unknown gunmen intercepted their vehicle.

Ibrahim said that a search operation had been launched.

“Armed men stopped a vehicle and took away some people in another car toward an unknown location,” resident Khwaja Nazar, in Khwaja Dokoh district, told Pajhwok Afghan News.

No one has claimed for the kidnapping.

A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said he had no information about the incident.

mbg/ma/kg

Views: 10

GET IN TOUCH

SUGGEST A STORY

Pajhwok is interested in your story suggestions. Please tell us your thoughts by clicking here.

PAJHWOK MOBILE APP

Download our mobile application to get the latest updates on your mobile phone. Read more