American, Australian hijacked at gunpoint in Kabul

American, Australian hijacked at gunpoint in Kabul

KABUL: An American and an Australian were seized at gunpoint in the heart of Kabul, authorities said Monday, the most recent in a progression of snatchings of nonnatives in the contention torn nation. 

The two educators at the American University of Afghanistan were seized on Sunday evening and no gathering has so far guaranteed obligation regarding their snatching. 

"Two remote teachers, one American and the other Australian, were stole at gunpoint by a grabbing posse from Dar-ul-Aman street in the focal point of Kabul city," a security official told AFP. 

"We avoid further remark with a specific end goal to not harm police salvage endeavors." 

The grabbing comes only two weeks after the salvage of an Indian philanthropy laborer, who was additionally taken at gunpoint close to her habitation in the heart of the city. 

The US State Department said it knew about reports of the hijacking of an American native, yet declined to remark further. 

The Australian government affirmed the "clear capturing" of one of its residents, refering to its international safe haven in Kabul, additionally declined to expound because of security contemplations. 

"We keep on advising Australians not to go to Afghanistan due to the to a great degree unsafe security circumstance, including the genuine risk of abducting," the legislature said in an announcement. 

The snatchings underscore the developing threats confronted by outsiders in Afghanistan. 

A gathering of visitors, including British, American and German nationals, went under Taliban fire on Thursday in the western territory of Herat, abandoning some of them injured. 

Help laborers specifically have progressively been setbacks of a surge in activist brutality as of late. 

The Indian philanthropy laborer, 40-year-old Judith D'Souza who was a staff individual from noticeable NGO Aga Khan Foundation, had been snatched on the night of June 9. 

D'Souza's snatching came after Katherine Jane Wilson, an understood Australian NGO specialist, was grabbed on April 28 in the city of Jalalabad, near the fringe with Pakistan. 

Wilson, said to be matured 60, ran an association known as Zardozi, which advances the work of Afghan artisans, especially ladies. 

The United States in May cautioned its subjects in Afghanistan of a "high" seizing hazard after an American barely got away snatching in the heart of Kabul. 

In April a year ago the projectile baffled assemblages of five Afghan laborers for Save the Children were found after they were snatched by shooters in the strife-torn southern area of Uruzgan.