Gunmen kidnapped an American who is a senior UN refugee official in Pakistan and killed his driver in the southwestern city of Quetta on Monday morning, United Nations officials said. In response, Pakistani security officials locked down routes leading out of the city.
The American official, John Solecki, the head of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Quetta, was abducted about 8 a.m. as he and his driver, Syed Hashim, an 18-year employee of the agency, were on their way to the United Nations’ local offices in Quetta. Mr. Hashim was shot and later died at a local hospital.
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