Italy: 4 Italian journalists abducted in Libya

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Source: Forbes

Associated Press, 08.24.11, 03:13 PM EDT

ROME -- Four Italian journalists were kidnapped and their driver killed, apparently by Libyan regime loyalists, as they traveled down a highway to Tripoli Wednesday, the Italian foreign ministry said.

The newspaper journalists included two from Milan daily Corriere della Sera, one from Turin's La Stampa and one from Avvenire, the daily of the Italian Catholic bishops Conference, the ministry said.

It said the abductions occurred on a stretch of highway between Zawiya, a town 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Tripoli, and the Libyan capital.

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The foreign ministry said it appeared that those carrying out the kidnapping were loyalists to Col. Moammar Gadhafi, who has been trying to cling to power as Libyan rebels clash with his forces in Tripoli.

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