Kidnapped Japanese aid worker in Afghanistan dead

Updated Thursday, August 28, 2008 0:00 am TWN, AP

Kidnapped Japanese aid worker in Afghanistan dead

TOKYO -- Japan confirmed Wednesday a body found in Afghanistan was that of a Japanese aid worker kidnapped at gunpoint a ay earlier. A news report said the body bore multiple bullet wounds. Officials from the Japanese Embassy in Kabul traveled to the eastern city of Jalalabad and identified the body as Kazuya Ito, 31, Senior Vice Foreign Minister Ichita Yamamoto told a news conference at the foreign ministry in Tokyo.

“We were doing our best to secure his safe release. But to our great regret, we confirmed the dead body was that of Kazuya Ito,” Yamamoto said. The Kyodo news agency said the body bore multiple bullet wounds.

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