They are said to have been seized in their car while travelling to the airstrip near Wajid, 340km (210 miles) north-west of the capital Mogadishu.
They were on a stopover between Puntland in northern Somalia and their destination of Kenya, a UN official told AFP news agency.
The nationalities of the three foreign aid workers have not been released.
BBC East Africa correspondent Karen Allen says Wajid has been controlled by Islamist al-Shabab insurgents for the past three months - but local clan militia also operate in the town - so at this stage it is not clear who is behind the kidnapping. ...more..http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7945416.stm
hawiye gunmen kidnap UN aid workers
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/world/africa/17somalia.html
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