BAGHDAD, July 21 (Xinhuanet) -- Gunmen abducted the Algerian charged' affairs to Baghdad, another diplomat and their driver on Thursday, a police source said.

    "The armed men abducted the Algerian top envoy Ali Bila'aroussi,and the embassy diplomatic attache Azzedine bin Fadi, along with their driver, after they opened fire at their four-wheel-drivevehicle near al-Sa'a restaurant, in Baghdad's western al-Mansur district," a police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

    The attackers on two cars stopped the vehicle of the embassy and dragged the diplomats and their driver out of their vehicle, he said.

    Iraqi and US troops reached the area afterwards and immediately started an investigation.

    Earlier in the month, Egypt's top envoy Ihab al-Sharif was kidnapped by a group of gunmen near the Egyptian consulate in al-Rabie Street in western Baghdad, only several weeks after he was named ambassador to Iraq.

    Iraq's al-Qaida wing claimed it had killed the Egyptian top envoy, but provided no evidence on his killing. Enditem