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KABUL, (APP/AFP) – An Indian charity worker
kidnapped from Kabul has been rescued, officials said Saturday,
more than a month after she was taken at gunpoint in the latest
abduction of foreigners in the war-torn country.
Judith D’Souza, a 40-year-old staff member of the Aga
Khan Foundation, a prominent NGO that has long worked in
Afghanistan, was abducted near her residence in the heart of
Kabul on the night of June 9.
“I am happy to inform you that Judith D’Souza has been
rescued,” India’s Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said on
Twitter.
“D’Souza is with us — safe and in good spirits… I
have spoken to Judith. She is reaching Delhi this
evening.”
An Afghan security official told AFP that D’Souza was
rescued in an operation in a district of Kabul on Friday and
no ransom was paid.
He added that a criminal gang, and not militants, were
behind the abduction, which had prompted desperate pleas from
D’Souza’s family to Indian officials on social media.