2 aid workers kidnapped in Afghanistan

Gunmen have kidnapped two foreign women aid workers and their three local colleagues in a remote province in northeast Afghanistan, officials said yesterday.
The group had been travelling on horseback when they were attacked and police have launched a search for them, believing they had been taken to Shahri Buzurg district east of the provincial capital Faizabad, he said.
Badakhshan is an impoverished and mountainous province in Afghanistan's far northeast bordering Pakistan, and while mainly quiet there have been pockets of insurgent activity.