9 Foreign Workers Missing After ISIS Attack On Libyan Oil Field

Several security personnel were killed when ISIS fighters attacked the oil field, but when the site was retaken, nine workers were unaccounted for.

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File photo of rebels under Libyan rebel leader Ibrahim Jathran guarding the entrance of the Libyan Ghani oil field, which was attacked by ISIS fighters Friday.

Nine foreign workers are feared to have been taken hostage by ISIS after the militants attacked a Libyan oil field Friday, several news outlets reported.

Eleven guards were killed in the initial attack Friday, but Libya's oil security forces took back control of the field, Reuters reported.

But when security forces returned to the al-Ghani field, nine foreign workers were unaccounted for, according to the Associated Press.

The missing workers included a citizen from Austria, and a citizen of the Czech Republic, Austrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Weiss told the AP.

Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek told the New York Times the missing workers also included citizens from Bangladesh and the Philippines.

One security official told Reuters several of the dead had been beheaded.

No demands have been made by any group since the workers went missing.