Militants seize Chinese engineers in Turkey

Suspected Kurdish militants have kidnapped three Chinese engineers in southeast Turkey near the border with Iraq and Syria, security sources said on Monday.

The workers were seized at a shop in the border town of Silopi late on Sunday by suspected members of the Kurdistan Workers Party, also known as the PKK, who went on to attack a power plant construction site where the engineers worked, the sources said.

Xinhua News Agency quoted a spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Turkey as saying the engineers "disappeared" after a thermal power plant in Silopi, which is being constructed by China Machinery Engineering Corp, was attacked by militants at 9 pm local time on Sunday.