Yunus Kabari, the Nepali national among six people taken hostage in Baghdad on Monday, may be a resident of eastern terai district of Siraha, officials said. Kabari, which sounds like a Muslim name, was working as a coffee boy at the Baghdad office of Saudi Arabian Trading and Contracting Company in Iraq. Charge d' affaires at the Royal Nepalese embassy in Saudi Arabia, Lok Bahadur Thapa, said he visited the head office of the company at Riyadh Monday and requested them to provide more details about their Nepali staff. Kabari was abducted at gun point by an unknown group of assailants in the Mansour district of Baghdad Monday afternoon. The whereabouts of the group remains unknown as yet. "We haven't heard anything from the group as yet and we don't know their intentions," reports quoted Shyamanand Suman, Royal Nepalese ambassador in Doha, Qatar, as saying. Suman had played an active role in trying to establish contact with Al Ansar Al Sunna-the Islamic extremist group-that abducted 12 innocent Nepalis in August this year and later slaughtered them without making any demands. Nepali authorities were subject to popular anger and criticism for failing to establish contacts with the insurgent group. This time around, top foreign ministry officials have said they will leave no stone unturned to locate and ensure safe release of the Nepali citizen. Nepal government has appealed the international community and requested the Indian embassy in Baghdad to help in this matter. Nepal doesn't have diplomatic representation in Iraq and has prohibited Nepalis to go and work in the war-ravaged country. But thousands of Nepalis are said to be working within Iraq, mainly as construction workers, security guards and domestic helps, risking their lives. nepalnews.com by Nov 03 04