2 French aid workers abducted

Two French humanitarian aid workers were kidnapped at gunpoint and spirited out of the house where they were sleeping, the Paris-based aid group Action Against Hunger and the French Foreign Ministry said.

The two aid workers are believed to be alive, the group said in a statement.

The workers were abducted when kidnappers burst into their house in Nili, in the central Afghan province of Daikundi, and bundled them into waiting vehicles, Action Against Hunger said.

The kidnappers had tied up guards posted outside the house.