Kidnappers of Christians demand $600,000

[k98nights]

Kidnappers of Christians demand $600,000

27/09/2011 11:56

Kirkuk, Sept. 27 (AKnews) - The kidnappers of three Christians who had been kidnapped in Kirkuk's Daquq district last week demanded $600,000 USD (710.9 million IQD) ransom, according to Kirkuk Police Chief Goran Gli.

The kidnappers had called the hostages' families on Monday and threatened to kill the three men, said Gli.

Bishop Slaywa Dani of the Virgin Mary Church in Kirkuk said, the families could not afford the ransom, and he called on the Iraqi government to help.

Dani warned that the Christian community of Kirkuk would soon have to flee as Christians in Nineveh or Baghdad had to before, if abductions and killings continued.

Hundreds of Christians have fled to the Iraqi Kurdistan region and European countries in the past when al-Qaeda and insurgent groups launched bloody attacks on churches in Baghdad and Nineveh.

By Diyar Samad

LH/CU/AKnews

http://www.aknews.com/en/aknews/3/263860/

[Mommyof3boys]

How absolutely scary....