Nine Oil Workers Were Kidnapped

Salah Eddin

Nine workers in the largest oil refineries in Iraq were kindnapped on Monday 14 May 2007.

Gunmen, aboard two cars, forced small bus to stop and kidnapped four engineers and five technicians working in Bijy Refinery in Salah Eddin Governorate north of Baghdad. The refinery suffered constant attacks and workers took strike actions earlier in the year.