Iraq Ministry hostages 'tortured, killed'
Pastor Dale Morgan
Iraq Ministry hostages 'tortured, killed'*
From correspondents in Baghdad
November 16, 2006 07:38pm
Article from: Reuters
KIDNAPPERS who seized dozens of men from a ministry building in Baghdad
on Tuesday tortured and killed some of their hostages, the Minister for
Higher Education said today, citing the testimony of freed hostages.
"There are a number of people who were killed, they are employees and
guards," Minister Abd Dhiab said, adding that around 70 hostages had
been released out of around 150 staff and visitors originally seized by
men in police uniforms.
"According to the people released, they were killed by torture," Mr
Dhiab said, declining to say how many had been killed.
Dhiab, a member of a Sunni Arab party in the Shi'ite-led government,
reiterated his determination to boycott the Government until all the
hostages are released.