Hundreds kidnapped by Taliban in Pakistan
Updated on 01 June 2009
Over 400 students, teachers and their families have been kidnapped by Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan as relief workers warn of a humanitarian crisis. Lindsey Hilsum reports.
They'd been travelling in a convoy of minibuses when they were seized by gunmen.
The International Committee of the Red Cross has warned of a humanitarian crisis in the region after three weeks of heavy clashes between Pakistani troops and Taliban fighters.
Channel 4 News sent a cameraman to the district of Buner, just 60 miles northwest of the capital, Islamabad. He travelled to Sultan Was, a village seized by the Taliban last month and used as their operations base.
