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    Pakistan police suspect aid worker kidnapped

    Associated Press – Tue, Jan 24, 2012

    KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a Kenyan aid worker has disappeared and is suspected of having been kidnapped in the country's south.

    Police officer Shahab Akbar Kolachi said late Monday the man was working for an international NGO, helping the southern Sindh province recover from devastating 2010 floods. Kolachi did not provide the man's name.

    The officer said police believe the man was kidnapped Monday while traveling from the city of Sukkur to the district of Dadu. His vehicle was found abandoned between the two areas. His colleagues tried to call him, but his phone was turned off.

    Kidnappings for ransom are common in Pakistan by both criminals and Islamist militants.

    Gunmen seized two aid workers, an Italian and a German, in the central Pakistan town of Multan last week.

     

    4 comments

    • Bee
      Bee  •  Fort Lauderdale, Florida  •  1 mth 2 days ago
      If Pakistan can afford nuclear weapons they can afford to clean up after floods.
    • Dave
      Dave  •  Elizabethtown, Kentucky  •  1 mth 2 days ago
      Kenyan aid worker has disappeared and is suspected of having been kidnapped in the country's south........No, he just walked to the nearest 7-11 for a slurpee....Of course he was "probably" kidnapped.....Doh!!!!
    • mischief
      mischief  •  1 mth 0 days ago
      cut off all outside aid .. let them help themselves ..
      fix the deficient make the pakistani pay for the free aid they have been recieving... until they control their criminals and islamists...no safety no aid..
    • JESSE
      JESSE  •  Orlando, Florida  •  1 mth 2 days ago
      I feel sorry for the two trying to help, but come on you have to take care of your own. there is to many outlaws outside the U.S.A. YOU CANT THINK WITH YOUR HEART ANY MORE, its sad but take care of your own,you should not have to leave your countrys to help some one and feel the same thing in your heart,but now you will pay with your life.sorry hope you two make it .good luck.
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