Sunday, December 18, 2011
Chaghcharan (BNA) A road construction company official has been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in western Ghor province, an official said on Saturday.
Mirwais Salehi, the provincial in-charge of Logan Road Construction Company was kidnapped from Ghalmin village five days ago, deputy police chief, Col. Abdur Rashid Basher, said this news agency.
A search operation involving police and area residents was underway, but no clue to Salehi’s whereabouts has been found so far, he said.
No one has so far claimed responsibility for the adduction. Resident Mohammad Arif said Salehi went missing in Ghalmin village while monitoring newly built bridges.
Acting Rural Rehabilitation Director Khair Mohammad said locals informed him about the incident, adding his department had received no information from the company’s head office in Kabul.
He said the Logan Company had been unable to complete a 16 kilometer road connection Charsada district with Chaghcharan, the provincial capital, over the past two years.
The $450,000 (21.856, 500 Afghanis) road agreement had been signed between the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and the Logan Company, he said.
Mohammad said they have several times informed the ministry about the slow pace of work on the road project.
