Kurds retake oil facility in **rth Iraq, 15 workers still missing

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By Mustafa Mahmoud KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Kurdish peshmerga forces retook a small crude oil station near the **rthern Iraqi city of Kirkuk which Islamic State insurgents seized earlier on Saturday, but the fate of 15 employees remained unclear. Two officials from the state-run **rth Oil Co told Reuters the militants had seized a crude oil separation unit in Khabbaz on Saturday morning and said 15 oil workers were missing after the company lost contact with them. One of the officials and a Kurdish military source said the peshmerga forces had regained control of the facility on Saturday evening and were combing it for explosives. We lost contact and **w the workers might be taken hostage," an engineer from the **rth Oil Co told Reuters, using a derogatory acronym for Islamic State.

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