GAZA, Dec. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- Two foreign teachers were abducted by unknown gunmen in northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Palestinian security sources and witnesses said.
Hindrich Tatchken, the principal of the American International School in Gaza and his deputy Brian Improjio, an Australian, were kidnapped by four masked and armed militants in the Nasser Street in the Gaza City, security sources said.
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Tatchken had repeatedly sent letters of protest to the Israeli army for the sonic-bomb and airstrikes carried out over the Gaza Strip, blaming it for scaring and panicking Palestinian children,said the school.
Police said that Palestinian security forces immediately started to search for the two foreigners and contacted different militant groups to figure out who kidnapped them and what they want.
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