Armed men have abducted three UN refugee agency staffers, including two Nepali nationals, from Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region, a local government official told AFP on Monday.Two Nepalis and a Sudanese national working for UNHCR were abducted Sunday in Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state.”A group of armed men kidnapped yesterday three UNHCR workers, two Nepalis and a Sudanese, from Geneina,” Abdelah Mustafa, spokesman for the state government of West Darfur told AFP.

“Police are searching for the kidnappers.”UNHCR officials were not immediately available for comment, but its spokesman in Khartoum told AFP by text message that a meeting was underway to discuss the “urgent incident”.