The two attacks happened in the same place in BaghdadÂ in the past two days, a spokesman for the agency said on Wednesday.  A total ofÂ 20Â staff were abducted, firstÂ from a minibus on Tuesday,Â and then from a car on Wednesday,Â Mahdi al-Mashhadani of the Sunni Endowment said.  The employeesÂ had beenÂ stopped by gunmen in civilian clothes at a roadblock on the northern outskirts of Baghdad.  The Sunni Endowment has "suspended its activities in protest" at the kidnappings.  At least 20 people have died in a series of bombings and shootings on Wednesday, mostly in Baghdad, police said. They included an interior ministry official.  Six people were killed when a bomb hidden in a plastic bag exploded inside a vegetable shop in eastern Baghdad, police said. Five others died in three small blasts in al-Karrada district of central Baghdad.  Gunmen also stormed two markets, one in a Shia district of Baghdad, another in a village called Rasheed south of the capital, killing seven people.Sixteen other bodies were found in separate parts of the country - apparent victims of sectarian violence.  The violence comes a day after a suicide bomber killed 53 people near a Shia shrine in the city of al-Kufa.  The United Nations has said the rise in sectarian bloodshed could destroy the unity government just two months after it took office.Â Â Â "We hope there will be no civil war in Iraq," Ashraf Qazi, the UN envoy to Baghdad said. "Although the reality right now is that there is a very high degree of violence."  "The emerging phenomenon of Iraqis killing Iraqis on a daily basis is nothing less than a catastrophe," he said.  The UN has endorsed Iraqi data which suggests about 100 civilians are being killed daily across the country.
Twenty employees of a government agency that looks after Sunni mosques and shrines across Iraq have been kidnapped in two attacks in Baghdad.<BR>