Afghan officials say a foreign contractor has been kidnapped in the capital, Kabul.<\/p>\n
Agriculture Ministry spokesman Latifullah Rashedi said the man, who was kidnapped early on June 18, was working in the accounting department of the ministry as part of a project managed by the World Bank.<\/p>\n
Rashedi declined to give the individual\u2019s nationality.<\/p>\n
Rauof Zia, media officer for the World Bank in Afghanistan, said the kidnapped individual is a Kenyan national working for one of the lender’s projects under the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund.<\/p>\n
Basir Mujahid, a spokesman for the Kabul police, said the contractor was African.<\/p>\n
Police have started investigating the kidnapping and rescue efforts were under way, he added.<\/p>\n
Mujahid said the man was kidnapped in the western neighborhood of Kart-e Char at around 9 a.m. local time.<\/p>\n
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.<\/p>\n
In May, a Finnish woman was kidnapped from a Kabul guesthouse in an attack that killed a German woman and an Afghan security guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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