ANKARA (Reuters) - Eighteen Turkish workers were kidnapped from a sports stadium they were constructing in northeast Baghdad on Wednesday morning, the head of their firm, Nurol Holding, told Reuters.
"People dressed in military uniforms broke down the door at 3 am (0000 GMT) and abducted all these people," Nurol chief executive Ugur Dogan said. A spokesman for the Iraqi interior ministry had earlier said 16 people were taken.
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