MOGADISHU — Gunmen in Somalia kidnapped Sunday a local employee with UN demining agency Mine Action, officials and relatives said.
Said Moalim Bashir, a public liaison officer for the agency, was captured while travelling to Mogadishu from Teredishe, a densely populated area outside the capital where thousands of displaced families live, they said.
"We got the information regarding his kidnap today (Sunday) after his driver who was apparently held with him was released," a local Mine Action official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"We don?t know his whereabouts but we have confirmed he was taken hostage by gunmen," the official said.
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