BAGHDAD, Oct. 1 (Xinhuanet) -- The Iraqi interior minister's brother Jebbar Jabr Solagh was kidnapped by gunmen while driving home in the capital late Saturday, a ministry official said.

   Solagh was snatched at 7:30 p.m. (1630 GMT) as he drove home to the mainly Shiite Al-Habibiyah district in southeast Baghdad, where he works as a hospital director, the official said.

   Solagh is the brother of Interior Minister Baqir Jabr Solagh.

   Bombings, assassinations and kidnappings are rampant in the war-ravaged country as sectarian tensions are running high. Enditem