French aid workers missing

Lyon - Four French nationals, three of them aid workers, are missing in Russia's Dagestan republic in the north Caucasus, the…

Lyon - Four French nationals, three of them aid workers, are missing in Russia's Dagestan republic in the north Caucasus, the relief organisation Equilibre, said yesterday.

The four men had been in Dagestan, a small republic in the extreme south-eastern corner of the Russian Federation, for several months to aid refugees from neighbouring Chechnya)

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