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15 de-miners kidnapped in W. Afghanistan

Xinhua, April 2, 2016 Adjust font size:

Unknown armed men abducted more than a dozen de-miners in the western Herat province, spokesman for the provincial government Jilani Farhad said Saturday.

"Fifteen personnel of a mine clearance agency were on their way to Kohsan district on Friday when a group of unidentified armed people kidnapped them on Islam Qala road and took them to unknown location," Farhad told Xinhua.

Without identifying the demining agency, the official, however, blamed Taliban militants for the abduction.

Several demining agencies have been operating in the conflict-ridden Afghanistan over the past three decades to locate and remove landmines and unexploded devices left over from wars and conflicts in the country. Enditem