Sudan, Chad Search for Kidnapped Chinese Worker Along Border
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Sudanese and Chadian forces are searching for a Chinese engineer who was kidnapped in Chad and is being held in a town along the border with Sudan’s western region of Darfur, a Sudanese army spokesman said.
An unidentified armed group abducted the Chinese worker in the town of Bahai inside Chad and took him to Sharq al-Teyna, spokesman al-Sawarmi Khaled said today by phone from Sudan’s capital, Khartoum. The worker, who is employed by China’s CGC Overseas Construction Co. Ltd., was seized two to three days before Sept. 8 while on his way to a building site in northern Chad, Xinhua reported today, citing Yang Guangyue, the Chinese ambassador to Chad.