The group of the six kidnapped in Somalia foreign humanitarian aid workers, including one Bulgarian, have been secretly transported to the capital Mogadishu, according to a source form the Islamic terrorist al-Shabab organization, cited by Bulgarian media.

On Wednesday gunmen stormed an airstrip in central Somalia kidnapping six foreign aid workers of the French organization "Action against Hunger", a spokesman for the European Commission said in Brussels.

The Bulgarian Danka Panchova is reportedly one of them. The others include two Kenyan drivers, two French, and a Belgian.

The al-Shabab source had stated that the hostages are being held in Mogadishu for ransom and the kidnapping did not have any political reasons.

Aid workers have been increasingly targeted this year in Somalia, where insurgents are fighting the government and its Ethiopian military allies. The country is considered one of the most dangerous for foreigners to work and live.

The kidnapped Bulgarian aid worker, Danka Panchova is form the village of Saraya, near the town of Pazardzhik. Panchova's parents recently moved back from Pazardzhik to Saraya to take care of their greenhouse business in the village. They learned about their daughter's kidnapping from representatives of the French organization Danka worked for. "Action against Hunger" called one of Danka's cousins in Bulgaria since her parents do not speak French.