UAE aid security team member missing in Afghanistan

Dubai, Jun 13 (Reuters) A member of a team providing security for United Arab Emirates' aid mission has gone missing in Afghanistan, a UAE official said today.

''We can confirm that a UAE citizen who is involved in providing security for UAE humanitarian aid in Afghanistan is currently unaccounted for,'' the official told Reuters.

No other details on the disappearance were immediately available.

The UAE has been providing aid--including setting up a field hospital, schools and mosques--under an agreement with Afghanistan's government since 2003.

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