Thursday, May 10, 2007
"We know the elders and local authorities are already working on it," said CARE International's regional spokeswoman Beatrice Spadacini, confirming the pair were missing since Wednesday.
A Kenyan source, who tracks Somalia but asked not to be named, said armed men took the pair in a village about 75 miles south of the Puntland capital Bossasso.
There was no word on who the attackers might be.
Puntland runs itself independently from the rest of Somalia and has been relatively more peaceful in recent years.
But the whole Somali region has a troubled history of abductions and assassinations of local and foreign aid workers, particularly in the self-declared independent enclave of Somaliland.
Authorities have generally blamed militant Islamists for the attacks on foreign workers.
Spadacini said details of the latest incident were sketchy, but it looked like a "local issue."
Source: Reuters, May 10, 2007