Russian embassy says diplomat killed in Iraq -Ifx

BAGHDAD, June 3 (Reuters) An official at Russia's Embassy in Baghdad today said one diplomat had been killed and four embassy employees kidnapped, Russia's Interfax news agency reported.

''We confirm that one diplomat died and four (people) have been kidnapped,'' Interfax reported the embassy official, who was not named, as saying.

Iraqi Interior Ministry and police sources said earlier that gunmen had killed an Russian embassy employee and kidnapped four others.

Interior Ministry sources said gunmen in three cars blocked a road where they were travelling in the upscale Mansour district and opened fire on their vehicle, killing one and then abducting four others.

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