United Nations, May 7 (IANS) Four UN peacekeepers, all from the Philippines, were abducted Tuesday by an unidentified armed group on the Golan Heights, the United Nations said.
The abduction took place earlier on Tuesday "near Position 86," a UN spokeswoman told Xinhua. "Efforts to secure their release are underway."
Additional details were not immediately available.
Earlier this year, 21 Philippino peacekeepers from the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) were abducted but later released.
UNDOF has been in the Golan Heights since 1974. It has about 1,000 troops and civilian staff, who are from such countries as Austria, India, the Philippines, Morocco and Moldova.
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