Afghanistan: 2 foreign docs abducted

Swiss-based non-profit organisation Medair,said it had lost contact with its staff but considered this to be a missing persons case,spokesman Aurelien Demaurex said Wednesday. He said that reports that the staffers were abducted remained unconfirmed.

On Wednesday,the Afghan intelligence service said five insurgents were arrested before they carried out a suicide attack along a main road leading to the capital Kabuls international airport.

Also,doctors in the northern province of Takhar reported a case of mass hysteria at a girls school in Taluqan where 125 students were brought to the main hospital complaining they were sick. No poison was detected,authorities said.