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Eight Chinese laborers who were held hostage by Iraqi militants for five days last week are on their way home .
The group flew out of Baghdad earlier Tuesday, accompanied by several Chinese diplomats. After a brief stop in Amman, Jordan, they will fly on to Beijing.
The eight men were driving to Jordan when they were kidnapped last Tuesday. The kidnappers released a video threatening to kill the Chinese workers if Beijing did not explain why they were in Iraq.
The laborers were turned over to a Chinese embassy official at a mosque in Ramdi on Sunday. The insurgents said they released the men after Beijing promised to discourage its citizens from traveling to Iraq.
VOA News
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