By DPA
Baghdad : Extremists have abducted 18 civilians in Balad city some 68 km north of the Iraqi capital, Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported Wednesday.
The kidnappers ambushed the civilians during the night on a main road as they were travelling home from Baghdad, the agency reported.
Balad has become the scene of many retaliatory sectarian killings between Shiite militias and Sunni Al Qaeda terrorists.
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