Two Germans missing in Afghanistan-Foreign Ministry

BERLIN, July 19 (Reuters) Two Germans have gone missing in Afghanistan, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

''The Foreign Ministry confirms that two German citizens went missing today,'' said the spokesman yesterday, declining to give further details.

German television cited BBC radio as reporting the two Germans had been kidnapped along with five Afghans. They all worked for the United Nations, according to the report.

The ministry spokesman said the German embassy in Kabul and other appropriate authorities were working to find out what had happened.

Two German journalists were shot dead in October 2006 in the comparatively safe north of the country where German troops are deployed as part of a NATO peacekeeping force.

The Taliban kidnapped two French aid workers and three of their Afghan colleagues in southwestern Afghanistan in April but later released them unharmed Reuters MP VP0423