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TOKYO, Dec 16 (KUNA) -- Two South Korean construction workers were rescued
after being briefly kidnapped by unidentified assailants in Afghanistan
earlier this week, Seoul's foreign ministry said Thursday, Yonhap News Agency
reported.
The two Koreans, both supervisors at a road construction site in the
northern Afghan province of Samangan, were kidnapped by four armed men on Dec.
13 while traveling to their workplace in a vehicle along with one local driver
and two bodyguards, the report said.
According to South Korea's public broadcaster KBS, the driver managed to
escape and report to police. The police and the military rescued all the
hostages after an exchange of gunfire, said KBS. The local media cited the
Afghan police as identifying the assailants as the Taliban and saying that a
Taliban commander was killed in the shootout. (end)
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