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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The teenage daughter of an Iraqi official was kidnapped Friday night as she walked home from her math tutor's house in eastern Baghdad, a police official said.
The kidnappers sent Khadim Yousef Al-Hulfi a text message from his 16-year-old daughter's cell phone, saying, "We have fulfilled our promise to you. We have your daughter."
Al-Hulfi is the assistant to the secretary-general of the Iraqi Council of Ministers.
The police official said the kidnappers had not yet made any demands. The girl was abducted around 7 p.m. (11 a.m. ET) in al-Zayoune, a middle-class neighborhood in the Iraqi capital.
Earlier Friday, Iraqi police searched for 28 prisoners from Abu Ghraib who escaped from custody while being transported to another facility in Baghdad, police and U.S. military spokesmen said.
Two police officers may have been involved in Thursday night's escape, Iraqi officials said.
The detainees were aboard a bus from the prison to another Iraqi correctional facility, said Lt. Col. Barry Johnson.
Iraqi police said several detainees had their hands bound with rope.
The inmates loosened the rope and managed to overpower the police and guards. One took an AK-47 assault rifle from a police officer and shot the officer, critically wounding him, police said. Four guards and the bus driver were severely beaten, police said.
Handcuffs and rope were found scattered in the street afterward.
All 38 detainees on the bus initially escaped, but Iraqi police said they captured 10 of them shortly afterward.
A source with the Iraqi Interior Ministry said authorities were investigating the trip because it was odd for prisoners to be moved at night with little security.
The kidnappers sent Khadim Yousef Al-Hulfi a text message from his 16-year-old daughter's cell phone, saying, "We have fulfilled our promise to you. We have your daughter."
Al-Hulfi is the assistant to the secretary-general of the Iraqi Council of Ministers.
The police official said the kidnappers had not yet made any demands. The girl was abducted around 7 p.m. (11 a.m. ET) in al-Zayoune, a middle-class neighborhood in the Iraqi capital.
Earlier Friday, Iraqi police searched for 28 prisoners from Abu Ghraib who escaped from custody while being transported to another facility in Baghdad, police and U.S. military spokesmen said.
Two police officers may have been involved in Thursday night's escape, Iraqi officials said.
The detainees were aboard a bus from the prison to another Iraqi correctional facility, said Lt. Col. Barry Johnson.
Iraqi police said several detainees had their hands bound with rope.
The inmates loosened the rope and managed to overpower the police and guards. One took an AK-47 assault rifle from a police officer and shot the officer, critically wounding him, police said. Four guards and the bus driver were severely beaten, police said.
Handcuffs and rope were found scattered in the street afterward.
All 38 detainees on the bus initially escaped, but Iraqi police said they captured 10 of them shortly afterward.
A source with the Iraqi Interior Ministry said authorities were investigating the trip because it was odd for prisoners to be moved at night with little security.