Former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro has been kidnapped in Rome. Mr Moro’s escort of five police bodyguards were killed when he was snatched at gunpoint from a car near a cafe in the morning rush-hour. (…)The extreme left-wing Red Brigade, in a telephone call to a Rome newspaper, has said it kidnapped the Christian Democratic leader, 61. (…)

For two months, Mr Moro was held at a secret location in Rome allowing him to send letters to his family and politicians – begging the government to negotiate with his captors.

The government refused all pleas from family, friends and the Pope Paul VI to concede to any demands.

Eight weeks after he was kidnapped, the body of Mr Moro was found riddled with bullets in the boot of a car in Via Caetani in central Rome.

The Red Brigade was a left-wing terrorist group formed in 1970 with the sole aim of overthrowing capitalist Italy by violent means. Most of their leading members had been captured and imprisoned by the mid-1980s.

Na BBC.