Iraqis free 42 students abducted at checkpoint

by E Wayne Ross on April 7, 2008

International Herald Tribune: Iraqis free 42 students abducted at checkpoint

BAGHDAD: At least 40 students kidnapped by gunmen on Sunday near the northern city of Mosul have been freed by the Iraqi security forces, the police said.

Meanwhile, clashes overnight in Baghdad’s Shiite district of Sadr City left five dead and more than a dozen wounded, the police said.