TV presenter jumps from balconey to escape gunmen

A well-known Iraqi TV presenter threw herself off her second floor balcony to escape five masked gunmen trying to kidnap her and her husband, she said today.

Speaking from her hospital bed where she is recovering from multiple fractures, Nagham Abdul-Zahra said five gunmen barged into her apartment in the southeastern Baghdad neighbourhood of Risala yesterday morning and tied up both her and her husband.