(3 Aug 2007)
1. Wide of police checking vehicles in outskirts of Ghazni city
2. Close-up of gun
3. Various of police checking vehicles
4. Woman wearing burqa inside vehicle
5. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Mohammad Zemarai, Police Official:
"We are searching for Koreans to prevent the kidnappers from transporting them from one place to other and we are searching any suspicious vehicles which come through our check posts."
6. Various of Ghazni city
7. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Zalmai Mohammadi, Local Resident:
"I have seen the hostages on TV, they are all women and I am really upset that they have been kidnapped. We ask the government to do something so they can be released soon."
8. People walking in Ghazni
STORYLINE:
Security remained high in Ghazni province on Friday as police checked vehicles and searched people, concerned that the Taliban could try to move 21 South Korean hostages.
"We are searching for Koreans to prevent the kidnappers from transporting them from one place to other," said police official Mohammad Zemarai.
23 South Koreans were kidnapped in Ghazni province on July 19 as they travelled by bus from Kabul to the southern city of Kandahar.
The Taliban have shot and killed two men in the group.
Local Resident Zalmai Mohammadi said he was "really upset" that the South Koreans had been taken hostage.
"We ask the government to do something so they can be released soon," said Mohammadi.
South Korea's diplomatic efforts have so far failed to bend Afghanistan's refusal to respond to Taliban demands.
Afghanistan came under criticism from the US and other Western governments earlier this year for releasing prisoners to win the release of an Italian hostage.
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