http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070720/korea_afghanistan_070720/20070720?hub=WorldKABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban gunmen halted a bus and kidnapped 18 South Korean passengers, including 15 women, as it travelled on a highway from Afghanistan's capital, the hard-line Islamic militia said Friday.
A South Korean church said it was checking to see whether the abductees were its members.
"We are investigating, who are they, what are they doing in Afghanistan,'' Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, a purported Taliban spokesman, told The Associated Press.
"After our investigation, the Taliban higher authorities will make a decision about their fate. Right now they are safe and sound,'' Ahmadi said, speaking on a satellite phone from an undisclosed location.
The Koreans were seized Thursday in Ghazni province, as they were travelling from Kabul to the southern city of Kandahar, said Ali Shah Ahmadzai, the provincial police chief.
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