An Italian freelance photographer and his assistant have been abducted in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan official said Sunday. Gabriele Torsello and his Afghan translator were abducted by five armed men on Saturday as they drove from Lashkar Gah, the capital of the southern Helmand province, to Kandahar, an official in Helmand said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. The two were in their car when they were abducted, the official was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
