Posted on 04/12/2004 9:08:11 AM PDT by areafiftyone
BERLIN, April 12 (Reuters) - German aid organisations evacuated their last four workers from Iraq on Monday due to the deteriorating security situation, a spokesman for one of the groups said.
The government said two embassy guards feared killed in an ambush last week remained missing.
A spokesman for the "Aktion Deutschland Hilft" said the last four members of a 10-person team removing munitions from residential areas left Baghdad on a U.N. aircraft for Amman. He said they hoped to return to Baghdad as soon as possible.
The Foreign Ministry said the two elite anti-terror security specialists headed to the German embassy have been missing since Wednesday when the convoy in which they were travelling from Amman to Baghdad was attacked near the Sunni town of Falluja.
Officials in Berlin said the security officials, who were taking part in a routine exchange of staff at Germany's embassy in Baghdad, were most probably killed in the attack.
Germany's ARD television reported on Monday that the German embassy in Baghdad had received a videotape showing corpses of two men and staffers had identified them as the security officials. The Foreign Ministry had no comment on the report.
Several foreigners have been taken hostage on the dangerous route between Baghdad and Amman which passes by Falluja, where a Sunni insurgency against U.S. forces intensified this week.
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