The pan-Arab satellite channel al-Jazeera on Wednesday showed a videotape of three Romanian journalists kidnapped in Iraq.

The video showed that the three Romanian journalists and a fourth unidentified person were sitting on the ground in a room with two armed gunmen pointed guns at them.

The three Romanians are Marie-Jeanne Ion, 32, a reporter for Prima TV, her cameraman Sorin Miscoci, 30, and Eduard Ohanesian,37, of the Romania Libera daily newspaper. They were reported missing by the Romanian Foreign Ministry on Monday.

Al-Jazeera said an unknown militant group kidnapped them, but did not mention of any demands.

(Xinhua News Agency March 31, 2005)