Gunmen have kidnapped two Chinese engineers and four Afghans in northern Faryab province, a local police official said on Sunday, Reuters reported. Sayed Aslam Ziarati, police chief of Qaisar district where the men were abducted on Saturday evening, said they had been working on a road project in the area with a Chinese company. "They were travelling in two vehicles, when gunmen seized them. We don't know who the gunmen are," Ziarati said. He added that two of the Afghans were also engineers. The Afghan Islamic Press news agency said they had been kidnapped by the Taliban, quoting a spokesman for the insurgents.
