KABUL: Taliban abducted nine Turkish nationals in eastern Afghanistan after civilian helicopter in which they were travelling made a forced landing on Sunday evening in Azra district in Logar province, officials said on Monday.
“Security forces found the helicopter but the nine people were not in it. They are taken by the Taliban. They are Turkish nationals and are nine people including the crew,” said Rais Khan Sadeq, deputy police chief of Logar province south of Kabul.
Hamidullah Hamid, governor of Azr district, said the aircraft, which had come from the eastern city of Khost and was heading for Kabul, belonged to a Turkish company which has a big project in Khost but gave no details.
The International Security Assistance Force in Kabul said the force assisted a search by Afghan authorities for a helicopter but gave no details. A spokesman said it was a civilian aircraft and not part of ISAF.
DND
