BAGHDAD: Gunmen kidnapped Iraq's acting deputy justice minister Abdulkarim Fares in the Binook area of northeastern Baghdad on Tuesday, officials said.
A police colonel said black-clad kidnappers in several vehicles stopped his car and that his driver was wounded by gunfire when he tried to intervene.
An interior ministry official confirmed the kidnapping had taken place, without providing details.
A justice ministry official identified the man seized as Fares, saying he is also director general for financial and administrative affairs at the ministry.
The kidnapping came just four days after gunmen abducted 18 Turkish employees of a major construction firm in Sadr City, south of Binook.
The identity of the kidnappers in both cases is unknown.
AFP
