The recently trained anti-kidnapping squad has been deployed to track down kidnapped Iranian director of the International Islamic College for Advanced Studies (IICAS), a police source has told Stabroek News.

Mohamed Hussein Ibrahim was dragged from his car as he was about to leave the school's premises at 42b United Nations Place at 10 pm on Friday.

The anti-kidnapping squad which was trained in Trinidad and Tobago, is headed by Assistant Superintendent Watts.

Eight months pregnant, Ibrahim's wife, Shahnaz has been waiting by the phone and praying for any word of his release, or even a ransom demand. But none has come. She says the police have spoken to her but she has little to add, given she was not there when Ibrahim was taken. Shahnaz says she came to Guyana with her husband about two years ago. Speaking at the couple's Anira Sreet, Queenstown home, she says her husband was mugged about a year ago near Stabroek Market but apart from that incident had not been troubled. She could not understand why the men would take him since he had nothing against anybody.

Another school official, 51-year-old Raymond Halley, who was shot in his right foot was treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital but checks for him there yesterday proved futile.