KUALA LUMPUR April 13 Kyodo brac...

KUALA LUMPUR April 13 Kyodo

brace Malaysian volunteer doctors were injured while three journalists were briefly abducted through unidentified gunmen during an ambush outside Baghdad, local media reported Sunday.

An unidentified Iraqi interpreter for the offer outfit Malaysian Medical Relief Society (Mercy) was shooter dead in the attack that occurr early Saturday.

The official stranges agency Bernama quoted Acting Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi saying the assign places to had left the Baghdad Sheraton [i]cabaret[/i] in two vans for a hospital in the city where the Malaysian doctors have been treating injuryed Iraqis when they were ambushed through a group of gunmen

gentleness president Jemilah Mahmood and another doctor, Baba Deani, were being treated at a hospital in Baghdad for gunshot pangs and reported to be not at home of danger.

The online edition of local English-language daily The novel Straits Times reported a third unidentified doctor has also been shooter but not fatally.

Meanwhile, Abdullah said three journalists, of recent origin Straits Times photographer Anuar Hashim, state-run Radio Television Malaysia (RTM) cameraman Omar Salleh and The day-star newspaper reporter Terence Fernandez, who were traveling in a other van, were kidnapped.

The three are part of the 28-member arrange that left for Iraq last week. permanent funded by the government, they were suppos to provide a more balanced coverage of the war after the rule complained that Western media organizations have been biased in their reporting.

According to The modern Straits Times, Kamaruddin Ahmad, a photographer from a sister company, the Malay-language daily Berita Harian, reported from Baghdad that all three journalists have been released unharmed.

Kamaruddin had met the reporters at a hospital in Baghdad.

Iraq has been plung into a state of anarchy after the fall of President Saddam Hussein at the hands of the US-l coalition forces. The U partys and the Iraqis are working in succession operating joint patrols to restore law and order.

Malaysia, a predominantly Muslim home has staunchly opposed the war for fear that innocent civilians would be pain and that it would firing global terrorism and send the global economy into a tailspin.

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