Evacuated Chinese due back in Beijing
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MORE than 1,200 Chinese workers have been relocated from conflict-torn northern Iraq to Baghdad.
The China Machinery Engineering Corp employees were successfully evacuated late last week and are due to return to Beijing, Xinhua news agency said yesterday.
China is the largest foreign investor in Iraq’s oil industry and has more than 10,000 workers in the country, officials said, although most are in the south and far from the current fighting.
“We managed to evacuate. We can finally report safety to our families,” Xinhua quoted a CMEC worker as saying.
The report added that eight Iraqi armored vehicles escorted the workers from the city of Samarra, where they had been working at a construction site of a local power plant.
A worker surnamed Ji was quoted as saying that his Samarra home had been “hit by shells for several times since May 1” as Iraqi forces continued to battle militants led by the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Major Chinese oil firms have prepared evacuation plans in case the current fighting threatens their operations.
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