Security firm confirms its workers taken in Baghdad

London, May 30: Canadian-based security firm GardaWorld today confirmed that four British security guards kidnapped in Baghdad were its employees.

""GardaWorld confirms that a client and four of its security professionals working in Baghdad were forcibly taken from a worksite this morning,"" the company said in a statement, which said the four security personnel were British citizens.

The British Foreign Office has said five British citizens were taken in all.

"GardaWorld is working with local and international authorities to determine the facts of this incident and supporting recovery efforts," the firm said. It was withholding the captives' names while their families were being informed.

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