Scores Of Iraqi Factory Workers Abducted

A bus damaged in a bomb attack near Ba'qubah (file photo) (epa) June 21, 2006 -- Reports say gunmen have abducted at least 80 Iraqi factory workers as they were being bussed home after work.

Unnamed Iraqi police sources said five busloads of employees of the state-owned Great Victory factory at Taji were commandeered just north of Baghdad by dozens of gunmen in at least five cars.


(Reuters, AFP)

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