 A French aid worker has been seized in the Afghan capital Kabul by unknown armed men, the government has said.
The man, identified by his organisation as Dany Egreteau, an education adviser, was abducted in the west of the city while on his way to work on Monday. An Afghan driver working for the National Directorate of Security tried to help the aid worker but was shot dead by the abductors, Zemerai Bashari, an Afghan interior ministry spokesman, said. "A man ... who tried to help and stop the abductors was shot and killed as he tried to scuffle with the abductors," he said. Ghulam Hazrat, the driver's uncle, said his nephew had tried to disarm the gunmen as they attempted to abduct Egreteua and another Westerner. "He grabbed the gun of one of the kidnappers. The other shot him dead with five bullets. At this time one of the foreigners ran away and they put the other in the car, kicking him badly." The kidnapping comes less than 10 days after a Briton and South African were shot dead and two weeks after another attack in which a female British aid worker was killed in Kabul. Afghanistan is experiencing its highest level of violence since 2004, when US-led forces pushed the Taliban from power. Opposition fighters have seized dozens of foreigners and hundreds of Afghans in the last three years. Businessmen and wealthier Afghans have been kidnapped by criminal gangs looking for ransom payouts. Most have been released unharmed but several have been killed. We need your help. Please donate
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