The Mujahideen in Afghanistan has captured two French aid workers and three Afghans in southern Afghanistan.
The group have been out of contact with the humanitarian organisation Terre d'Enfance (A World for Our Children) since early on Tuesday, the French foreign ministry and Afghan government said.
"We have seized two foreigners and three Afghans - two of them interpreters, one of them a driver - on the road between Nimroz and Farah," Yousuf Ahmadi, a spokesman of the Mujahideen forces said.
"They are in our custody now and our leadership will decide their fate."
The provincial police chief said the French woman had been wearing a burqa and the man was dressed in a traditional Afghan shalwar kameez tunic and turban when they were taken.
The French foreign ministry said it had been informed by Terre d'Enfance that the two French nationals had failed to reach their destination on Tuesday.
They had been setting up a women's group in the Zaranj, the capital of Nimroz province. The organisation has been working in the area for four years.
Agencies
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