Red Cross staff seized, Danish soldiers killed in Afghanistan

0 Comments | AFP, September, 2007

KABUL (AFP) — Four Red Cross staff, two of them foreigners, were held by unknown kidnappers Thursday as military officials announced two Danish soldiers were killed in a new attack by extremist Taliban fighters.

An overnight operation near the border with Pakistan, meanwhile, killed 18 Taliban, a provincial official said, adding there were some civilian casualties although he could not confirm claims that eight were killed.

The International Committee of the Red Cross employees were captured Wednesday about 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Kabul while on a mission to secure the release of a German engineer kidnapped 10 weeks ago, officials said.

Security forces had on Thursday afternoon surrounded the "armed thieves" who abducted the four, said Anayatullah...