Sepcial Report: Tension accelerates in Iraq

    BAGHDAD, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Unidentified gunmen attacked a Russian embassy vehicle in Baghdad's Mansur neighborhood on Saturday, killing one diplomat and kidnapping four others, a police source told Xinhua.

    Gunmen traveling in several cars chased the Russian embassy car carrying five Russian diplomats and opened fire at the vehicle in the 14th Ramadan Street in the Mansur neighborhood, said the source.

    Four diplomats were kidnapped and a fifth, wounded by the gunfire, died of his wounds, the source added.

    Violence has persisted in Iraq despite the formation of a new national unity government on May 20. Enditem