Seven International Committee of the Red Cross workers have been kidnapped after gunmen attacked their convoy in northern Syria.
Spokesman Saleh Dabbakeh said gunmen abducted the team after stopping their convoy near the town of Saraqeb in Idlib province on Sunday morning.
He said six of the people are ICRC workers and one is a volunteer from the Syrian Red Crescent.
It was unclear what nationalities the workers were.
Syria's state news agency said the gunmen opened fire on the ICRC team's four vehicles before seizing the Red Cross workers. It blamed "terrorists", a term the government uses to refer to opponents of President Bashar al Assad.
The team had been in the field since October 10 to assess the medical situation in the area, described as a "difficult area to go in".
Magne Barth, head of the ICRC delegation in Syria, said: "We call for the immediate and unconditional release of the seven colleagues abducted this morning.
"Both the ICRC and SARC work tirelessly to provide impartial humanitarian assistance for those most in need across Syria on both sides of the front lines, and incidents such as these potentially undermine our capacity to assist those who need us most."
Much of the countryside in Idlib has fallen into the hands of rebels over the last year, and kidnappings have become rife.
It comes after Syrian rebels claimed they had shot a government warplane on Sunday near the southern city of Deraa.
Fighters used anti-aircraft machine guns to hit the plane, but it was able to make an emergency landing at nearby Thala military airport.
Syrian state media has not confirmed the incident.
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