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| Washington has said it is checking reports that three US tourists were detained by Iranians while hiking along the northern Iraqi border. | Washington has said it is checking reports that three US tourists were detained by Iranians while hiking along the northern Iraqi border. |
| The three are reported to have gone missing in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region which borders Iran. | The three are reported to have gone missing in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region which borders Iran. |
| Local Iraqi officials suggested the Americans might have been detained after straying into Iranian territory. | Local Iraqi officials suggested the Americans might have been detained after straying into Iranian territory. |
| There was no immediate comment from Iran. A US official said the US embassy in Baghdad was investigating. | |
| "We are using all available means to determine the facts in this case," said the state department official, Robert Wood. | |
| A senior security official in the Iraqi city of Suleymaniyeh, Qadr Hamajan, told Reuters news agency that the Americans were among a group of four tourists had arrived there on Wednesday. | |
| Three of them set off the following day for the tourist resort of Ahmad Awa, about 150km (93 miles) to the east and near the Iranian border, he said. |