Shafaq News / The Mayor of Erbil Governorate, Nabz Abdul Hamid announced on Sunday that unknown gunmen in Chamchamal district in Sulaymaniyah province kidnapped a contractor providing cooking gas to the capital of Kurdistan Region.

Abdul Hamid said in a press conference today that gunmen kidnapped the owner of a company that provides gas to Erbil, pointing out that the kidnapper was tortured in order to prevent him from transporting gas from the only source of his production in Kurdistan Region, which is the "Kormor" field to Erbil.

He added that Erbil governorate sent an official letter to the regional government, appealing to it to intervene with the release of the kidnapped person , and the return of natural gas to Erbil.

Erbil has witnessed for days scarcity in cooking gas, as the price of one cylinder reached about 18,000 Iraqi dinars, after it was 7500 dinars, according to the official price.