WARSAW (Reuters) - A Polish Catholic missionary has been kidnapped by eight armed people in the town of Baboua in the Central African Republic, the head of Poland's Pontifical Mission Societies said on Tuesday.
"The kidnappers said they represented the 'Central African People's Democratic Assembly', a group rebelling against the current government," Tomasz Atlas told Reuters.
"They made no demands. They said they wanted to exchange the kidnapped missionary for their leader, who is currently imprisoned in Cameroon."
Atlas gave no further details. Poland's foreign ministry was due to hold a news briefing about the situation of Polish missionaries in Central African Republic on Tuesday.
(Reporting By Wiktor Szary; Editing by Gareth Jones)