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Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Canadian kept in a hole in the ground in Afghanistan AFP - 37 minutes ago KABUL (AFP) - - A tired-looking Canadian journalist described in a video released on Sunday how kidnappers kept her in a hole in the ground for four weeks, sometimes chained and blindfolded. Wearing a head scarf and a muddied traditional Punjabi dress, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reporter Mellissa Fung said she had not been hurt during her ordeal, which began when she was kidnapped in Kabul on October 12. "They kept me blindfolded... not all the time," Fung was shown telling intelligence chief Amrullah Saleh in the offices of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), hours after her release late Saturday. She said the kidnappers had dug a hole in the ground and then a side tunnel less than two metres (six feet) long in which she had been kept for four weeks, one of them in chains. "They dug a small hole and there was a tunnel and a cave... The cave was very, very small," she said. "For the first three weeks they had somebody with me the whole time, watching me. So they did not chain me. The last week they left me and chained me," she said. NDS spokesman Sayed Ansari told a press conference earlier that three men had been arrested for kidnapping the woman, who was grabbed by gunmen during a visit to a refugee camp in Kabul. He said she had been kept in a "well," as had a member of the royal family and former presidential candidate, Humayun Shah Asifi, who was kidnapped last month and held for about 10 days. Asifi was kept for days with the adult son of a Kabul banker in a one-by-two metre hole about five metres (16 feet) underground outside of the capital. Three men had been arrested for involvement in the kidnapping of Fung but they were only mid-level players, Ansari said. The kingpins were being sought, although one had fled the country, he added. He would not give details about the captured men. Fung was handed over to NDS officials near the provincial capital Maydan Shah, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) southwest of Kabul, provincial government spokesman Adam Khan Sirat told AFP. There had been no deal for her release, he said. The abduction, kept secret at the request of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation out of concern for Fung's safety, has been blamed on criminal groups. The insurgent Taliban has denied involvement. Around two weeks after Fung's kidnapping a female Dutch journalist, whose abductor claimed to be with the Taliban, was kidnapped and held for about 10 days before being released on Friday. A French aid worker was snatched in the city centre on Monday and is still missing. His kidnapping has been blamed on organised crime, which has been climbing and, with increased insurgent attacks, has left security at its weakest since the Taliban were removed from power after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article Average (0 votes) Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: Asia Pacific China announces $586 billion stimulus planAP - 56 minutes ago Afghan suicide attack kills 2 Spanish troopsAP - 1 hour 9 minutes ago Indonesia executes 3 Bali bombersAP - 1 hour 47 minutes ago Bodies of 3 Bali bombers buried after executionAP - 1 hour 52 minutes ago Indonesia executes Bali bombers, radicals call for revengeAFP - 1 hour 57 minutes ago Enlarge Photo Canadian kept in a hole in the ground in Afghanistan Most Popular – Asia Pacific Viewed Obama: First pooch may be mutt 'like me' Obama rules out new cabinet picks as jobless rate jumps Documents expose Prince William RAF training row: report US doctors tell Liu Xiang he needs surgery GM warns of cash crunch, appeals for bailout View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology

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