The International Committee of the Red Cross has said that six of its aid workers and a member of the Syrian Red Crescent had been kidnapped by gunmen in Syria. Six ICRC staff members and one member of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent have been abducted in Idlib in northwestern Syria, ICRC spokesman Ewan Watson told AFP at the organization’s Geneva base on Sunday. We dont know who took them. It was unidentified armed men, he added. The road on which the members were travelling is notorious for kidnappings, Al Jazeera’s Omar Al Saleh reported. “We understand from talking to activists in that area there are a number of armed groups.” Magne Barth, head of the ICRCs delegation in Syria has called for the immediate and unconditional release of the members in a statement released Sunday. Both the ICRC and the SARC work tirelessly to provide impartial humanitarian assistance for those most in need across Syria on both sides of the front lines, and incidents such as these potentially undermine our capacity to assist those who need us most, she said. ç∂
Posted on: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:16:08 +0000
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