The United States on Wednesday offered a reward of up to $5 million for information that could help find two Americans who disappeared in Afghanistan.
Paul Edwin Overby, Jrwas last seen in Khost, Afghanistan, near the border with Pakistan, in mid-May of 2014, the US State Department has said in a statement.
At the time of his disappearance, he was conducting research for a book he was writing and it appeared that he planned to cross the border into Pakistan in furtherance of his work, the statement said.
Mark Randall Frerichs was kidnapped in early February 2020. At the time of his kidnapping, he resided in Kabul. He moved to Afghanistan in approximately 2010 and worked on construction projects throughout the country.
