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There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the abduction, which took place at about 4:15 p.m. on the coastal highway between Lebanon's southernmost port of Tyre and Naqoura, a town on the Israeli border that is UNIFIL headquarters...
...Higgins was driving in a U.N. jeep station wagon from Tyre to Naqoura behind a similar vehicle in which two other observers were traveling," said U.N. spokesman Timur Goksel...
Security sources in Tyre said two gunmen in a brown Volvo passed Higgins' car, blocked the road, forced Higgins into their car and drove north toward Tyre...
Reporters in Tyre say the influence of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, or Party of God, has been growing in the villages. Hezbollah is believed to be the umbrella group for radical Shiite Moslem factions holding most of the foreign hostages in Lebanon...
Higgins was returning from a meeting in Tyre with Abdel Majid Saleh, an Amal political leader in the area, Saleh told reporters. Efforts to free foreign hostages were among their topics, he said...