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Abducted Bangladeshi aid workers freed in Afghanistan
Kidnappers freed two Bangladeshi aid workers abducted in Afghanistan last month, their aid agency said on Sunday.
- Agencies
- Published: 11:41 November 2, 2008
Dhaka: Kidnappers freed two Bangladeshi aid workers abducted in Afghanistan last month, their aid agency said on Sunday.
The aid-workers, Akhter Ali and Mohammad Shahjahan, were freed on Saturday night, an official for the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (Brac) said.
“They…are now in our Kabul office," Zia Hashan, manager of public affairs and communications of BRAC added, without giving details of their release.
The two had been kidnapped from Ghazni, a province in the southwest of Kabul, on October 23.
Brac has been operating in Afghanistan since 2002 providing micro-finance, education and health services to the poor
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