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MOGADISHU, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Somali gunmen kidnapped two Libyan diplomats in Mogadishu's busy Bakara market on Saturday, a driver for the two men said.

"Ten men with pistols in their hands surrounded us. They seized the two diplomats and left with the car," the driver, who declined to give his name for fear of reprisal, told Reuters.

The driver said that two men approached a few minutes before and asked him and the bodyguard accompanying the diplomats who the passengers were.

A Reuters reporter who went to the Libyan embassy in Mogadishu said two other diplomats there declined to comment. (Reporting by Aweys Yusuf; Editing by Bryson Hull)

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