BEIRUT (AP) — In a brazen daylight kidnapping,
gunmen snatched a bus filled with 48 Iranian pilgrims from a Damascus
suburb Saturday as they headed to visit a shrine holy to Shiites,
reported Iranian state television.
The abduction was the largest single
kidnapping of Iranians in Syria, where several smaller groups of
Iranians have been snatched in recent months. It came as regime forces
were pounding the neighborhood of Tadamon, on the southern outskirts of
the Damascus, trying to uproot one of the last rebel-held areas in the
city.
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