2 Polish Journalists Reportedly Abducted

Armed Iraqis abducted two Polish reporters at a checkpoint south of Baghdad, their editors said. Marcin Firlej, 27, a reporter for the private TVN24 news channel, and Jacek Kaczmarek, 31, with Polish state radio, had set off from Nasiriyah with a group of journalists and were stopped near Hillah.

TVN24 reporter Marcin Woroch, who was in the same convoy, said the group was driving toward Karbala and hit the checkpoint after leaving the highway. He said he saw “five or six armed men, some still in military uniforms, some in black.”