An American woman has been kidnapped with her driver while travelling to work in an aid agency outside Afghanistans city of Kandahar. Photo by BBC
An American woman has been kidnapped with her driver while travelling to work in an aid agency in southern Afghanistan, BBC reported Saturday.
Unknown gunmen took the pair outside of the southern city of Kandahar. The kidnappers have not contacted the government yet, officials said.
It emerged that the unidentified 49-year-old US woman was wearing a burka when she was taken.
Provincial governor Asadullah Khalid added that police and intelligence officials were working to find the woman, who he said had lived in the country for years.
Followers of the hardline Taleban - ousted in 2001 - have been mounting a violent comeback over the past two years, centring on the south of the country.
There is also criminal violence in the region, associated with the opium poppy trade.