The World - News from Feb. 22, 1988

Six European medical relief workers have been abducted by a guerrilla group in the Ethiopian province of Tigre, where secessionist rebels are fighting the government, officials said. Kidnaped were two nuns and a doctor from Ireland and two Belgian doctors and a Dutch nurse affiliated with the international aid group Medicins Sans Frontieres-Belgium, spokesman Reginald Moreels said in Brussels. He said the six were taken last week by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigre. Fighting in the northern province has been intense, and Moreels speculated that the rebels might have taken the medical personnel to treat their wounded.