Gunmen on Wednesday abducted two Pakistani Christians working for a South Korean-run hospital in a violent slum area of the country’s largest city Karachi, police said. Four armed men stopped a car taking local staff to the Good Samaritan Hospital in the western neighbourhood of Orangi, an impoverished area that was last year hard hit by political and ethnically linked shootings. “They asked the occupants: ‘Who is Korean among you?’” local police station chief Sabir Khan told Pakistan Today.
“They replied: ‘None of us.’ “However they snatched two hospital employees — a computer operator and an administration assistant. Both are members of the Pakistani Christian community, and fled in a car.” No foreigners were in the vehicle that was stopped, Khan said. “We have sent teams to track down the kidnappers and recover the staff members,” he added.