Several others kidnapped in Iraq along with South Korean

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SEOUL (AFP) — Several other people were abducted by Islamic militants at the same time as a South Korean hostage now being threatened with death, the man's employer told the Yonhap news agency.

Kim Sun-Il, 33, was abducted last Thursday near Fallujah, west of Baghdad, by militants who have threatened to behead him unless a South Korean plan to send troops to Iraq is scrapped.

Several other people including third-country employees of US company KBR, a part of the Halliburton group, were abducted along with Kim, Yonhap quoted Kim Choon-Ho, head of the South Korean company Kim worked for, as saying.

They were abducted after visiting a US military camp near the city, Yonhap quoted Kim, president of Gana Trading Company, as saying.

"Mr. Kim (Sun-Il) was...