An Afghan National Army soldier patrols the gate of the military hospital next to an ambulance in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 13, 2012. 2012. (Photo: AP)
Gunmen have kidnapped two foreign women aid workers and their three Afghan colleagues in Afghanistan's remote northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said Wednesday.
"Yesterday evening, five health workers, including two female foreign nationals, were kidnapped in the Yaftal area," the provincial governor's spokesman, Abdul Mahroof Rasikh, told AFP.
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