4 Mercy Corps workers kidnapped in Pakistan

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By Associated Press

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Police say four Pakistanis working for Portland-based Mercy Corps have been kidnapped by gunmen in southwest Baluchistan province.

Story Published: Feb 19, 2010 at 4:16 PM PST

Story Updated: Feb 19, 2010 at 4:16 PM PST

4 Mercy Corps workers kidnapped in Pakistan

Afghan refugee children hang out with wooden carts on the roadside of a poor neighborhood of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Friday, Feb. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

ISLAMABAD (AP) - Police say four Pakistanis working for Portland-based Mercy Corps have been kidnapped by gunmen in southwest Baluchistan province.

Kidnappings have soared throughout Pakistan in recent years, and many of the cases involve ransoms thought to help finance militant movements.

Also Friday, a police official says a small explosion in a store that sold sugar has killed two people and wounded two others in Pakistan's main northwestern city of Peshawar.

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