Chinese workers return from Iraq

 
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The first batch of the Chinese workers who were trapped in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra have landed in Guangzhou.

The first batch of the Chinese workers trapped in northern Iraq arrive in Guangzhou in south China on Sunday, June 29, 2014. [China Daily] 


All of the some 1,200 Chinese workers hired by China Machinery Engineering Corporation have since been evacuated to Baghdad with the help of the Iraqi military.

"All the workers feel better now. At the beginning, we were all terrified by the sound of guns and bullets. We could barely sleep at night."

"I have never seen such a splendid thing. We were well protected by armed vehicles and soldiers."

There are over 10-thousand Chinese nationals currently in Iraq.

Most of them work with Chinese companies operating in the south, which has so-far been relatively unaffected by the insurgency.  

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