Reuters: Baghdad bus passengers feared kidnapped -police [View All]

[Eugene]

Baghdad bus passengers feared kidnapped -police
16 Nov 2006 16:00:09 GMT
Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Passengers from up to six Baghdad minibuses
may have been abducted after being stopped at a fake security checkpoint
in the Iraqi capital on Thursday, police and local residents said.

"We don't know how many people may be involved," a source at Baghdad
police headquarters said.

Residents in west Baghdad said they had seen men in uniform stopping
minibuses and taking passengers away. The police source said it appeared
up to six buses were involved.

Such minibuses, the main form of public transport in the city, typically
carry a dozen or more travellers.

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