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| Scores of Iraqi students abducted | Scores of Iraqi students abducted |
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| Gunmen have kidnapped 42 university students near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police say. | Gunmen have kidnapped 42 university students near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police say. |
| Officials said the students were on a bus taking them back to Mosul University, where classes were due to restart after a weekend break. | Officials said the students were on a bus taking them back to Mosul University, where classes were due to restart after a weekend break. |
| Another bus carrying students managed to escape, but three passengers were injured when gunmen opened fire on it, a police spokesman said. | Another bus carrying students managed to escape, but three passengers were injured when gunmen opened fire on it, a police spokesman said. |
| The US military says it is looking into the reports. | The US military says it is looking into the reports. |
| 'Fresh clashes' | |
| Mosul, some 360km (225 miles) north-west of Baghdad, has recently been the scene of extra security effort as US and Iraqi forces try to stop violence in cities outside the capital. | Mosul, some 360km (225 miles) north-west of Baghdad, has recently been the scene of extra security effort as US and Iraqi forces try to stop violence in cities outside the capital. |
| Elsewhere, the US military said an air strike had killed nine people in the Shia enclave of Sadr City in the capital. | |
| Iraqi police and hospital officials said five people were killed and 17 injured in overnight clashes between militants and US soldiers. | |
| Police sources also said a US Stryker armoured personnel carrier was damaged in the fighting, the Associated Press (AP) reports. | |
| The US military said it was not aware of any fighting between its troops and militants. |