This doesn't sound good: Shots were fired during the kidnapping of Italian journalist Giulaina Sgrena.

Giuliana Sgrena, a journalist for the newspaper Il Manifesto, was seized shortly before 2 p.m. by gunmen who blocked her car near the Baghdad University compound at the Jadriyah bridge, located across the Tigris river from the Green Zone, police said.

The woman had gone to the neighborhood to interview refugees from Fallujah and then went on to Friday prayer services at a nearby mosque, colleague Barbara Schiavulli, an Italian radio journalist, told The Associated Press. Schiavulli said she received a call from Sgrena’s cell phone when the kidnapping was apparently under way.

“I couldn’t hear anyone talking ... I heard people shooting” and the sound of people splashing through the puddles left by a heavy overnight rain, Schiavulli said. “I kept saying, ’Giuliana, Giuliana,” and no answer,” Schiavulli said.

Italy is working on finding her.