Two aid workers, one Spaniard and one Argentine, were kidnapped in Somalia by six, armed Somalis and are currently being held as hostages:

Security forces pursued Somali kidnappers into a mountainous hideout on Wednesday hours after they abducted a Spanish and an Argentine aid worker from the medical charity Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF).

The two women — Spanish doctor Mercedes Garcia and Argentine nurse Pilar Bouza — were in a car on their way to a hospital in the morning when they were ambushed by men with machine guns.

Somali kidnappers rarely kill their hostages and officials are hopeful that the women will be returned to their homes and their captors eventually caught.

Aid Workers Abducted in Somalia [The New York Times]