Four aid workers kidnapped in Jar Qala
Jar Qala, Pashtun Kot, Faryab, Afghanistan International NGO
4 kidnapped
Four national staff members of an INGO (three community trainers and one driver) were abducted while travelling through the Jarqala area. All released by 23rd January after negotiations, but threatened with assassination if the continue to work for aid organisations in the area. Means of attack recorded as kidnapping. Context ambush. Actor type non-state armed group: subnational. Source: Aid Worker Security Database, incident 1382.
People involved
No names have been released for this case.