Gunmen kidnapped at least 18 Turkish employees of a company building a football stadium in Baghdad on Wednesday. An Iraqi police colonel said the Turks were kidnapped by black-clad gunmen in pickup trucks, and that authorities had formed a committee to investigate their abduction.
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The kidnappers bundled the Turkish workers into several SUVs and sped away, Iraqis security officials said. Khalid Mohammed / AP -
Iraqi security forces guard the entrance to a sports complex being built by a Turkish construction company, in the Shiite district of Sadr City, Baghdad. Masked men in military uniforms kidnapped 18 Turkish workers and engineers working at the site. Khalid Mohammed / AP -
A boy rides his bicycle past a stadium being built by a Turkish company in Baghdad’s Habibiya district. Gunmen in military uniform seized 18 Turkish workers from the sports stadium they were building in northeastern Baghdad on Wednesday, in what Ankara said appeared to have been a targeted attack. Ahmed Saad / Reuters -
A view of a stadium being built by a Turkish company in Baghdad. Gunmen in military uniform seized 18 Turkish workers from the sports stadium they were building. Ahmed Saad / Reuters -
Nurol Insaat, a leading Turkish construction company, confirmed in a statement to AFP that its workers had been abducted in Baghdad and said that it had not yet received any ransom demand. Haidar Mohammed Ali / AFP -
Gunmen in military uniform seized 18 Turkish workers from the sports stadium they were building in northeastern Baghdad on Wednesday. Haidar Mohammed Ali / AFP -
Nurol Insaat, a leading Turkish construction company, confirmed in a statement to AFP that its workers had been abducted in Baghdad and said that it had not yet received any ransom demand. Haidar Mohammed Ali / AFP
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