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| UN aid workers seized in Somalia | UN aid workers seized in Somalia |
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| Gunmen in southern Somalia have kidnapped four UN aid workers, three of them foreigners, reports say. | Gunmen in southern Somalia have kidnapped four UN aid workers, three of them foreigners, reports say. |
| They are said to have been seized in their car while travelling to the airstrip near Wajid, 340km (210 miles) north-west of the capital Mogadishu. | They are said to have been seized in their car while travelling to the airstrip near Wajid, 340km (210 miles) north-west of the capital Mogadishu. |
| They were on a stopover between Puntland in northern Somalia and their destination of Kenya, a UN official told AFP news agency. | They were on a stopover between Puntland in northern Somalia and their destination of Kenya, a UN official told AFP news agency. |
| The nationalities of the three foreign aid workers have not been released. | The nationalities of the three foreign aid workers have not been released. |
| BBC East Africa correspondent Karen Allen says Wajid has been controlled by Islamist al-Shabab insurgents for the past three months - but local clan militia also operate in the town - so at this stage it is not clear who is behind the kidnapping. | |
| The UN says 35 aid workers were killed in 2008 and 26 abducted in 2008, the AP news agency reports. | |
| Somalia has been without a functioning government since 1991. | Somalia has been without a functioning government since 1991. |
| Islamist insurgents are in control of most of southern Somalia. | Islamist insurgents are in control of most of southern Somalia. |
| Puntland is a semi-autonomous region, which has been relatively stable. | Puntland is a semi-autonomous region, which has been relatively stable. |