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| Iraq |
| Five oil workers shot dead in $400,000 robbery |
| 2010-08-26 |
| [Gulf Times] Gunmen disguised as Iraqi soldiers killed five oil workers transporting salaries and stole almost $400,000, the head of security for the state-owned oil company said yesterday. The attack occurred on Monday afternoon near the town of Sayniyah in Salaheddin province north of Baghdad as the salaries were being taken to an oil pumping station in Haditha, in western Anbar province. "Five employees of K-3, a unit of the North Oil Company, were kidnapped near the village of Al Bushmanah, west of Sayniyah, by gunmen wearing army uniforms," said Colonel Adnan Mohamed Abdulrazzaq, security chief for the state-owned North Oil Company. "They killed them and stole the money they were transporting." Abdulrazzaq said they were carrying 453mn Iraqi dinars ($385,000) when the attack occurred at around 1pm on Monday afternoon. "Security units were supposed to have been sent with them, but were not," he said, without specifying why. The K-3 pump station, owned by the North Oil Company, pumps to the adjoining Haditha oil refinery, which handles between 10,000 and 20,000 barrels of oil per day. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 "Security units were supposed to have been sent with them, but were not," he said, without specifying why. I'll bet I know why... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-08-26 14:00 |