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December 24, 2008 18:20 IST
A 38-year-old man from Tamil Nadu working with a food store attached to Italian soldiers deployed in Afghanistan, has been kidnapped by Afghan militants in Herath province, police said.
Simon, who hails from Kalakurichi Village of Villupuram district, was kidnapped by a terror group calling itself Mujahideen [Images] on October 13 this year, police said.
Simon was working with an Italian food store supplying food to its soldiers in Afghanistan.
He was kidnapped with two other company employees while they were delivering food at the International Security
Assistance Force camp in Bagram air base, the sources said.
The kidnappers allowed Simon to talk to his brother Subbu who was also working in Kabul. Subbu said that the Indian Embassy in Kabul informed him about the kidnap on October 14.
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