(10/04/1998) GROZNY, Russia (AP) _ Unknown gunmen abducted three Britons and a New Zealand citizen in Russia's breakaway Chechnya region after a shootout with their bodyguards, a regional official said on 10/04/1998. (10/04/1998) The British Embassy in Moscow identified the four hostages as Britons Peter William Kennedy, Darren Eamonn Hickey, and Rudolf Franz-Joseph Petschi, and Stanley Frederick James Shaw of New Zealand. (10/05/1998) LONDON (AP) _ A Foreign Office minister said on 10/05/1998 that the British phone company whose four employees were kidnapped in Chechnya at the weekend was specifically warned to withdraw from Russia's breakaway region, but ignored the advice.