An engineer from Malawi was kidnapped and 10 people, including bodyguards and drivers, were killed in an ambush on Wednesday in western Baghdad, an interior ministry official said.
A three-vehicle convoy of personnel working for the Iraqna mobile telephone network was attacked by gunmen in a tunnel, the official said, adding that the dead included seven bodyguards and three drivers.
There have been a number of kidnappings of foreigners in Baghdad, including the abduction of a US woman journalist on January 7. – AFP
