SOFIA (BULGARIA) – A Sudanese rebel group has taken six Bulgarians working with the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) captive, Bulgarian authority confirmed. [pro_ad_display_adzone id=”10″]
Nikolay Mladenov, Bulgarian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, in Sofia, that they were captured after their helicopter was forced to land in war-torn South Kordofan province in southern Sudan.
He said fighting between the government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North, which the ministry said was holding the Bulgarians captive, has increased in the provinces of South Kordofan and Blue Nile since peace talks collapsed in December.
Mladenov said government was leasing with the WFP in getting further details on the capture and next line of actions.(Reuters/NAN)