Armed men shot and wounded the Iraqi driver of a Jordanian embassy car in Baghdad Thursday and seized the vehicle, official Jordanian government spokesman Nasser Judeh said to Deutsche Presse Agentur (dpa). "Masked gunmen attacked the car during a refuelling stop at a Baghdad gasoline station, wounded its driver Jamal Salman, seized the vehicle and drove it to an unknown destination," Judeh was quoted as saying by the official Petra news agency. "The driver was evacuated by people at the station to a hospital, where his condition is reportedly unstable," he added. He said that the Jordanian government was "following up the issue with the Iraqi authorities" to ensure that necessary measures were being taken to hunt down the culprits. Salman is the second Jordanian embassy driver in Iraq to be targeted by unknown assailants over the past two months. Another driver, Suleiman Saidat, was abducted from his home in a Baghdad neighbourhood on December 20, and efforts by the Jordanian government so far failed to ensure his release. --More 22 21 Local Time 19 21 GMT
