Gunmen wearing Iraqi special forces uniforms have abducted a wealthy banker and his son after killing five of their bodyguards, police said Friday.
Ghalib Abdul Hussein Kubba, director-general of the Basra International Bank, was kidnapped from his home in Baghdad's western Yarmouk suburb at about 9:30 p.m. Thursday, said Maj. Felah al-Mohammedawi. According to the AP, the kidnappers arrived in a minibus and shot dead five guards at the house before seizing Kubba and his son, Hassan, who is a senior employee at the same bank.
"We think it is a criminal case because the bank director was not killed," al-Mohammedawi said.
Drive-by gunmen killed a cigarette salesman in Husseiniyah, a town about 20 miles northeast of Baghdad, early Friday, police said.
Meanwhile, police found the bodies of three men who had been shot execution-style in northern Baghdad. The men were shot in the head and were found in two locations in northern Baghdad on Friday, police said.
