Staff Reporter :Two Bangladeshi BRAC officials in Afghanistan were abducted by unidentified gunmen from Kunduz city of Afghanistan on Thursday.The victims are: Haji Shawkat, 50, Chief Engineer, and Md Sirajul Islam Sumon, 37, Chief Accountant of BRAC. Both hailed from Pabna district.Mahbubul Alam Kabir, Senior Media Manager of BRAC, said, “When BRAC officials were going from Kunduz to Baghlan, their vehicle was intercepted by armed men around 4:00pm on Thursday (Afghan local time).”Later, the armed miscreants released one of the three officials as he is an Afghan.”We have informed the foreign ministry about the abduction,” Mahbubul said.He also said that, local police in Afghanistan were trying to trace the abducted officials.BRAC has been working in Afghanistan since 2002. Setting up around 400 offices in the country’s 34 provinces, the NGO is providing education, healthcare, training, and development tools to the citizens of the war-hit country.
