A spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Damascus says seven of the group's workers have been kidnapped in northern Syria.
Saleh Dabbakeh said that gunmen abducted the team near the town of Saraqeb in Idlib province around 11:30 am (1400 IST) on Sunday. He said six of the people kidnapped are ICRC staff workers and one is a volunteer from the Syrian Red Crescent.
Dabbakeh declined to provide the nationalities of the six ICRC employees. Hundreds of Syrian civilians, some carried on stretchers, fled a besieged rebel-held suburb of Damascus following a temporary cease-fire in the area, activists and officials said on Sunday.