Canadian woman kidnapped in Afghan capital
Armed men kidnapped a Canadian woman in the centre of the Afghan capital today, a senior police officer said.
Four men forced the woman into a white Toyota sedan in Kabul’s Shahr-e-Naw district, Gen Mahboubullah Amiri, a senior official in the Afghan Interior Ministry, said.
Amiri said he didn’t know the woman’s name or her affiliation.
A UN official confirmed the abduction. She would say only that the victim worked for an “international agency.”
The abduction follows a string of warnings to foreigners living in Kabul that they could be targeted in attacks, including kidnappings.
A suicide attack on an internet cafe on May 7 killed a UN worker from Burma.
