KHARTOUM, Sept 15 (Reuters) - A Chinese worker was kidnapped in Chad and joint Sudanese-Chadian forces were searching for him along the border, the Sudanese army said on Wednesday.
"We have information that he was kidnapped in Chad," Sudan's army spokesman al-Sawarmi Khaled said. "We are waiting for the results of the search to determine exactly where he is."
Criminals work along the long and porous border to kidnap foreign workers for ransom in the remote triangle between Chad, Sudan and the Central African Republic. They usually are held in the war-torn Sudanese Darfur region.
(Reporting by Opheera McDoom; editing by Michael Roddy)
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