Japanese aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan: police

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JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AFP) — Unknown assailants kidnapped a Japanese man as he visited a development project in eastern Afghanistan Tuesday, police said, in the latest in a series of attacks on aid workers.

The man was snatched outside the city of Jalalabad in the eastern province of Nangarhar at about 6:30 am, provincial police spokesman Gharfor Khan told AFP.

"He was kidnapped from a field next to a stream when he arrived to work on a water supply project," Khan told AFP.

Khan was unable to immediately provide details about the kidnapped man or say who might have taken him. "We have started our operation to find him," he said.

Security forces had moved into the area where the Japanese man was believed to be held, provincial government spokesman...