By Ahmed Elumami.

Tripoli, 28 January 2014:

An engineer of Libya Post Company was kidnapped in Benghazi yesterday by three gunmen in an unidentified military vehicle.

"Three gunmen in a military-type vehicle without any identifying markings grabbed the engineer and immediately made off from the scene,” a fellow employee who was with the man when he was abducted told Libyan news agency LANA.

“He was snatched in front of Tibesti Hotel at around 1:30 pm while he was training fellow employees,” the spokesman of Benghazi Joint Security Room, Ibrahim Al-Sharaa, told the Libya Herald.

He added that the security authorities had launched an investigation into the kidnapping.