From correspondents in Kabul, Afghanistan, 08:33 PM IST

A group of gunmen has kidnapped two Turkish engineers working at a construction project in Afghanistan's western Herat province, a senior police official said Tuesday.

'Two Turkish nationals, construction engineers, and their interpreter were kidnapped Monday by unknown gunmen from Pashtoon Pul area of Islam Qala town bordering with Iran,' a regional police spokesman Abdul Rauf Ahmadi said Tuesday.

'Their car and their passports were found in Jaghartan area of Enjeel district of Heart province; the gunmen just took the Turkish engineers to an unknown location,' Ahmadi said.

No one had claimed responsibility for the abduction yet, he said.

(Staff Writer, © IANS)