Iraq: 3 Westerners kidnapped
16/09/2004 08:48  - (SA)  

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Baghdad - Confusion reigned on Thursday over the nationalities of three Westerners abducted in Baghdad, as Iraqi police said they were two Americans and a Briton, after the interior ministry said they were three Britons.

"The people kidnapped were two Americans and a Briton," said a colonel from the Maamun police station that oversees operations in the plush Mansur district of the Iraqi capital where the three hostages were seized by gunmen.

He said the hostages worked for a supply company but declined to elaborate and insisted on withholding his name.

An interior ministry spokesperson said earlier that three British civilians had been snatched from their home at dawn.

"We've heard the report from the interior ministry and we're trying to get to the bottom of it," United States embassy spokesperson Richard Schmierer said.

A British spokesperson said only that the embassy was desperately trying to determine what had happened.

"We are aware of these reports and we are urgently seeking information. We're just trying to verify what happened," she said.

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