Gunmen kidnap 16 Iraqi company employees -sources

BAGHDAD, Mar 27 (Reuters) Gunmen kidnapped 16 employees of the Baghdad trading company Al Saeed Import Export today, Interior Ministry sources said.

The abductions took place in the upscale Mansour district of the capital.

Thousands of Iraqis have been kidnapped in the bloody chaos that has gripped the country since a US-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.

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