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'Turkish construction workers seized' in Iraq | |
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At least 17 Turkish construction workers have been kidnapped by gunmen in the north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, security officials say. | |
The workers were employees of a company building a sports complex in the Sadr City district. | |
They had been sleeping in caravans at the site when the gunmen arrived in vehicles at dawn and took them away, officials told the Associated Press. | |
Neither the identity nor the motive of the kidnappers was immediately known. | |
Turkey recently began carrying out air strikes against Islamic State (IS) in northern Iraq and allowing US warplanes to use its bases to bomb the jihadist group. |