Men posing as Afghan security forces snatch Australian aid worker


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DATE: May 18, 2017, 4 p.m.

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  1. PETER LLOYD: A veteran Australian aid worker has become the latest person kidnapped in Afghanistan.
  2. Kerry Jane Wilson was snatched by armed men posing as intelligence officers in the city of Jalalabad.
  3. Afghani police and consular officials from Australia are still trying to work out why the 60-year-old was taken.
  4. No group has admitted to the crime, and no ransom has been demanded.
  5. Anthony Stewart reports.
  6. ANTHONY STEWART: Kerry Jane Wilson is a veteran aid worker. For the last 20 years, she’s been helping refugee women in Afghanistan.
  7. In this YouTube clip, she explains the work of the NGO she helped established, Zardozi.

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