BAGHDAD, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- At least 18 Turkish construction workers and engineers who were building a sports stadium were kidnapped by unidentified gunmen on Wednesday in Baghdad.
The workers, employed by the Turkish company Nurol Holding, were sleeping in caravans at the construction site in the capital's north-eastern Sadr City district when armed men in military uniforms arrived at about 6 a.m. in black SUVs and took them away. No significant violence was reported.