Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped an Egyptian diplomat in the Libyan capital Tripoli, the Libyan foreign ministry said last night.

The diplomat works as administrative attache at the Egyptian mission, a ministry spokesman and an embassy source said. No more details were available at the time of going to press.

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