Workers kidnapped in Nigeria
Six foreign workers and a Nigerian are abducted from a ship in Delta state.
Published On 20 Jan 2007
The incident brings to nine the number of foreign workers being held hostage in the world’s eighth largest oil exporter.
There have been a spate of attacks and kidnappings against foreign workers in the Niger Delta, Nigeria’s main oil region.
A sick Italian oil worker who had been kidnapped in the remote creeks in another part of the Niger Delta on December 7 was set free on Friday. But the abductors said they would keep three other foreigners.
Source: News Agencies