Four armed assailants abducted a German woman from a restaurant in the Afghan capital on Saturday, prompting police to shoot at the speeding getaway car, killing a nearby taxi driver, AP quoted officials as saying. The attackers pulled up to a western Kabul barbecue and fast food restaurant in a dark gray Toyota Corolla, and one of the men went inside and asked to order a pizza, said intelligence officials investigating the incident. They said two other men waited outside, while another remained in the car. The man in the restaurant pulled out a pistol, walked up to a table where the woman was sitting, and took her from the restaurant, the officials said on condition of anonymity because of policy. Area police, alerted to the kidnapping, spotted the speeding car. They opened fire but missed, hitting a nearby taxi and killing its driver. German officials said they were checking reports but could not confirm the incident. «The Foreign Ministry and the German Embassy in Kabul are pursuing reports of a possible kidnapping of a German citizen,» said Julia Gross, spokeswoman for the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin. «We are in close contact with Afghan authorities and are working to clarify the situation.»
