IRBIL, June 29 (KUNA) -- Unknown gunmen kidnapped four Iraqi civilians southern Kirkuk on Friday while the Iraqi army captured a top outlawed militant in northern Iraq, according to police.
A source at the police in Kirkuk told KUNA gunmen stopped a convoy of trucks of a construction company and abducted four drivers and took them to an unknown place.
No group claimed responsibility for the abduction so far.
Meanwhile, a police source in Mosul, northern Iraq, said the Iraqi army arrested a leader of outlawed group calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq.
The source identified the arrestee as Waleed Houshi, captured in Tel Afar town in western Mosul. (end) sbr.bs KUNA 291920 Jun 07NNNN