WORLD BRIEFING / SOMALIA
About 25 masked men armed with machine guns kidnapped two European aid workers in central Somalia, fellow aid workers and a witness said.
Michel Peremans, a spokesman for the Belgian chapter of Doctors Without Borders, confirmed that two staff members, one Dutch and the other Belgian, were missing in the Bakool region, where the attack occurred. But for security reasons he did not say whether they had been taken hostage.
Witness Abdirahman Isaq was in the convoy when it was stopped as it traveled between Radhure village and the town of Wajid. The gunmen, with cloth wrapped around their faces, motioned for his vehicle filled with clan elders to continue but captured the two foreigners.
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