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GIZ confirms release of aid worker kidnapped in mid-August

Pajhwok Afghan News
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KABUL in mid-August, a German aid worker has been released, her employer GIZ announced on Saturday.

In a statement, the development organisation said: "The German GIZ employee, kidnapped some nine weeks ago in Afghanistan, is free again."

She is in good condition, "very relieved and happy" at being released, GIZ said of the woman, whose identity is yet to be disclosed.

The woman had been taken hostage from a Kabul neighbourhood on August 17 when gunmen stopped the vehicle she was travelling in . . .

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