(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) The Italian Foreign Ministry announced Wednesday that Vanessa Marzullo, 20, and Greta Ramelli, 21, went missing while taking part in humanitarian relief effort for in the vicinity of Aleppo, north Syria.
There has been no contact from the two female volunteers several days ago, the Ministry said in a statement, noting that a crisis management unit is trying to locate them in collaboration with the secret service and their families.
The two ladies entered Syria on July 28 to offer medical care to the Syrian wounded in the conflict in the framework of a humanitarian project sponsored by 'Horriyati,' a civil society organization.
Their teammate, Roberto Andervill, said he was unable to contact them on Facebook or any other social media website.
Andervill believes that they could have been abducted.
The Catholic clergyman Paolo Dall'oglio has been missing since July 28, 2013, when he was set to meet leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi.
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