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| Afghanistan: Kidnapped aid worker released by captors |
| 2008-12-05 |
| (AKI) - A French aid worker abducted on the streets of Kabul a month ago has been freed, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday. Thirty-two year-old Dany Egreteau who worked for the non-government organisation, Solidarity Laique, was kidnapped by armed men on 3 November while walking in the centre of the Afghan capital. An Afghan driver was killed as he tried to prevent his colleague's abduction. The French Foreign Ministry said it had been working with Afghan officials to secure Egreteau's freedom. Egreteau, an education specialist, had arrived in Afghanistan just one week before his abduction. He is expected to return to France on Thursday. His abduction followed a string of attacks on foreigners in Afghanistan. In October, a Briton and South African working for the DHL international courier company were shot dead in Kabul and British aid worker, Gayle Williams, was killed in the capital days later. In a statement released on Wednesday, Foreign Affairs Minister Bernard Kouchner thanked French and Afghan authorities for their efforts in obtaining Egreteau's release, and attacked the kidnappers for targeting aid workers. |
| Posted by:Fred |