Engineer kidnapped in Iraq
2005-12-05 11:45
Baghdad - A French engineer working in Iraq was kidnapped on Monday morning from a wealthy west Baghdad neighbourhood, police said.
The engineer was driving through the upscale al-Mansour neighbourhood where he lived when gunmen stopped his car and kidnapped him around 09:20 local time.
Documents proving him to be French were found in his abandoned car. According to police he worked in a water purification plant.
The French embassy was contacted by AFP but could not confirm the kidnapping.
According to police, the owner of the house the engineer was renting confirmed the nationality of the victim.
The kidnapping comes amid a renewed spate of kidnappings of foreigners, following the abduction of four Western peace activists last week and a German woman last week.
- AFP