Gunmen torch 15 trucks in Iraq,abduct drivers-police

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RAMADI, Iraq, Apr 29 (Reuters) Gunmen set fire to 15 fuel trucks heading to the Iraqi volatile province of Anbar today and kidnapped all the trucks' drivers, police said.

Major Abdulghani al-Dulaimi said the trucks were transporting fuel from the Baiji refinery, north of Baghdad, to western Anbar.

The incident happened early morning on a main road near Samarra, 100 km north of Baghdad.

Insurgents frequently attack the country's oil and gas infrastructure. Anbar is a stronghold of the Sunni Arab insurgency and al Qaeda in Iraq.

REUTERS KK PM1520

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