Oil workers snatched in Nigeria
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Unknown attackers kidnap five foreign workers from an oil rig in Nigeria's volatile Niger Delta.
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At least seven oil workers are reportedly seized by gunmen as they lay pipelines off Nigeria's southern coast.
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Gunmen abducted two expatriate oil workers after an ambush in the Nigerian southern oil city of Port Harcourt, bringing to at least 10 the number kidnapped in the past week in the restive Niger Delta region, an industry source told AFP.
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Gunmen in speedboats kidnapped seven workers including three foreigners from an offshore Nigerian oilfield in a major setback to peace in the Niger Delta.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian gunmen attacked an Agip oil export terminal in the Niger Delta at dawn on Thursday, kidnapping four foreign workers and killing a local youth, authorities said.
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Gunmen used dynamite and  heavy machine guns to kidnap at least three senior managers of  Indonesian chemical company Indorama in Nigeria&#39;s southern  oil-producing Niger Delta, police said on Friday.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian gunmen in about seven speedboats attacked an Agip oil export terminal in the Niger Delta early on Thursday and kidnapped three Italian workers, authorities said.
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A British engineer has been kidnapped in the oil-rich Niger delta, the Foreign Office confirmed today.
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The wife of a prominent Nigerian politician has been kidnapped in the oil city of Port Harcourt, police say.
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Gunmen disguised as riot police abducted four foreign workers from the residential compound of oil services giant Schlumberger in Nigeria's oil city Port Harcourt, authorities said on Saturday.
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At least seven foreign oil workers were kidnapped in a militant attack on an oil industry compound in Nigeria's southern oil-producing delta on Tuesday, oil industry sources said.
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Three Filipinos working for a U.S. oil contractor were kidnapped in southern Nigeria early Friday, a day after a German was abducted in the region where oil revenue has caused strife between multinational companies and local communities.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen in speed boats kidnapped seven oil workers including one Italian in a raid on an oil production vessel off the Nigerian coast on Wednesday, authorities said.
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Gunmen have kidnapped the two-year-old daughter of a Shell worker in Port Harcourt, the country&#39;s oil capital, Nigerian authorities and company sources said Thursday.
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Four more people have been abducted in  the Niger Delta, authorities said on Monday, underscoring  insecurity in Nigeria&#39;s oil-producing region hours after a  3-year-old British girl was freed by her kidnappers.
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Gunmen have kidnapped several oil workers in southern Nigeria, some of them expatriates, police and diplomatic sources said Friday.
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Gunmen seized several hostages from an Italian oil supply vessel off the coast of southern Nigeria, security officials said Wednesday.