Three British nationals were nabbed by gunmen in the Iraqi capital on Thursday, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said.

The three British men were believed to be civilians living in a house at Mansour neighborhood, on the west part of Baghdad. Gunmen snatched them in their house at dawn without violence, the interior ministry spokesman Col. Adnan abdul-Rahman said.

He could not immediately provide further details about the incident.

There was no immediate confirmation of the abduction from the British Embassy in Baghdad.

A few small foreign businesses have their headquarters in the Mansour neighborhood. Most of them are protected by armed guards, but others have a more low-key security presence.