Female student kidnapped in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: A 13-year-old schoolgirl was kidnapped by unidentified persons in southern Kirkuk on Sunday, a source from the Joint Coordination Center said. “A student of al-Thaqafa school was kidnapped by unknown persons,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “Search is going on for the young girl,” he added, not giving further details on the incident. The oil-rich Kirkuk, a city of mixed Kurdish, Turkmen and Arab population, lies 250 km northeast of Baghdad. AmR (P)/SR 1