Kabul, Sep 27 : Two foreign employees of the International Red Cross have been abducted in Wardak province in southern Afghanistan.

The area police chief General Ewaz Muslimyar said that the two were kidnapped along with their two Afghan drivers while travelling in Salar district.

The Red Cross office in Kabul has not yet commented on the report.

The number of kidnappings has soared in Afghanistan where foreign and Afghan troops are battling Taliban insurgents.

"This much I know, that two Red Cross staff were kidnapped by the Taliban in the Salar district on Wednesday," General Muslimyar was quoted by a news agency, as saying.

Sources said that two foreigners had gone to Wardak province to discuss the release of a German man kidnapped in July.

The men had also helped in release of 21 South Korean captives last month, they said.

The number of kidnappings has risen in the last few months with foreign troops and aid workers often being targeted. (With inputs from ANI)