Two Red Cross staff abducted in Afghanistan released: ICRC
AFP
Two Red Cross workers were freed in Afghanistan Tuesday, seven months after they were abducted during an attack on their convoy that killed six colleagues, the international charity said, reports AFP from Kabul.
The Afghan aid workers came under fire in the northern province of Jowzjan on February 8 while en route to a remote snowbound area to deliver relief supplies.
Six employees were killed on the spot, many of them shot from close range, in one of the worst attacks on the International Committee of the Red Cross.
We are relieved and grateful that our colleagues are now back with us unharmed, Monica Zanarelli, ICRC chief in Afghanistan, said in a statement.
Their abduction and the killings of our six colleagues were emotional agony for all of us, especially for their families and friends.
The ICRC would not comment on the identity of the abductors or the details of the employees release.
Spokesman Thomas Glass told AFP the two men were doing well.
