Armed men abduct three Turkish workers in Kirkuk:

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: A group of unknown armed men have abducted three Turkish workers from their houses south of northern Iraq’s oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Tuesday night, a Kirkuk Police officer said. “Three Turkish workers, employed in Kirkuk, have been abducted on Tuesday night by unknown gunmen from their houses in southern Kirkuk‘s Officers compound,” the Police officer said, adding that the “police had opened an investigation about the incident and carried out a search operation for the abducted Turkish workers. Kirkuk is 280 kms to the northeast of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. PT / SKH 386