Aircrew kidnapped in Somalia
The major press services are reporting that a Fokker crew and passengers were kidnapped today at Dhusa Mareb in Somalia (as written below). Does anyone know who the crew is, who the operator is etc etc???
MOGADISHU (AFP) — Four foreign aid workers with the French NGO "Action Contre la Faim" (ACF - Action Against Hunger) and their two pilots were kidnapped on Wednesday in central Somalia, witnesses and officials told AFP.
The kidnappings took place at around midday (0900 GMT) in Dhusa Mareb, near the Ethiopian border.
"They were snatched by gunmen as they were trying to leave the airstrip in Dhusa Mareb," said one local residents who had helped the NGO coordinate their trip.
"The plane's pilots were also taken. Thea aid workers were three women and a man working for ACF but I cannot say how many pilots," he added.
Mohamed Abdullahi Moalim, a local elder, confirmed the information and said that the local authorities had set up checkpoints in a bid to intercept the kidnappers and their hostages."The local security forces are trying to trace them but we're not sure in which direction they went," he told AFP.