15 kidnapped in Baghdad

Published April 17, 2006

BAGHDAD, April 16: Gunmen, some dressed in police uniforms and driving police cars, kidnapped 15 employees from two Baghdad businesses on Sunday, security sources said.

At 4pm, the assailants … barged into the office of an investment firm in the upscale area of Zayuna and took away 12 employees, a security source said.

Half an hour later, gunmen, wearing civilian clothes, raided a mobile phone company’s office in the Al-Jadida area, kidnapping three people in police cars. —AFP

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