Up to 100 kidnapped in Baghdad ministry raid
Source: Reuters
BAGHDAD, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Gunmen wearing Iraqi police commando uniforms kidnapped as many as 100 people from a Higher Education Ministry building in central Baghdad on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the ministry said. An Interior Ministry source said earlier that 20 employees had been snatched in the raid on the ministry's Research Directorate building in Karrada, a religiously mixed neighbourhood.
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