About 40 men wearing camouflage uniforms, similar to the ones wore by Iraqi police, blocked the street and abducted four bodyguards and their client right under the eyes of the finance ministry guards, people who witnessed the scene said quoted by BBC.

The identity of the kidnapped person wasn’t revealed yet, but it’s supposed he was either a diplomat or an important person, due to the scale of the entire operation and the presumably highly-trained kidnappers. According to a correspondent of the same British media giant, the kidnappers could be part of a renegade police unit or a commando of some sort.

No demands have been made until now, as the authorities try to get in touch with the abductors and quickly resolve the issue. Similar preparations are taking place in the United Kingdom, the British officials hoping to end the crisis in a swift and clean manner, without any fatalities.

This is the last act in this category from a very long series that goes on for years in Iraq. Even Prince Harry was the alleged target of a kidnapping plot if he would have been deployed in the war-torn country along with his army unit, the Blues and Royals.