Gunmen kidnapped 26 workers from a refrigerated food factory Sunday in western Baghdad in what appeared to be a new sectarian attack, a security official said.
The kidnapped workers included Shiites and Sunnis. Khalaf said the identity of the kidnappers or their sect was not known. Similar mass kidnappings in the past have been blamed on either Sunni extremists or Shiite death squads, who sort the captives by their sect and kill their targets.
Thousands have been killed in recent months in tit-for-tat sectarian attacks between Shiites and Sunnis. Earlier Sunday, the bodies of eight people apparently killed in such attacks were found in Baghdad or to the south _ most of them bound and showing signs of torture.
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Gunmen kidnapped 26 workers from a refrigerated food factory Sunday in western Baghdad in what appeared to be a new sectarian attack, a security official said.
The kidnapped workers included Shiites and Sunnis. Khalaf said the identity of the kidnappers or their sect was not known. Similar mass kidnappings in the past have been blamed on either Sunni extremists or Shiite death squads, who sort the captives by their sect and kill their targets.
Thousands have been killed in recent months in tit-for-tat sectarian attacks between Shiites and Sunnis. Earlier Sunday, the bodies of eight people apparently killed in such attacks were found in Baghdad or to the south _ most of them bound and showing signs of torture.
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