Four foreigners kidnapped from oil ship off Nigeria
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Two Norwegians and two Ukrainians were  kidnapped at gunpoint from an oil services ship off the coast  of Nigeria on Wednesday, the latest in a series of abductions  in Africa's top oil producer, authorities said.
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Militants in Nigeria's oil-producing region claim responsibility for the kidnapping of four foreign workers.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen attacked a Shell oil rig in the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria early on Wednesday and kidnapped five expatriates, police and security 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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Nigerian militants have kidnapped a Croatian worker on the troubled waterways of the Niger Delta, officials and the oil giant Shell said, amid rising tensions in Africa's biggest oil producing region.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - About 20 Nigerians working for a contractor to Royal Dutch Shell were abducted during a Monday attack on a convoy of boats supplying oilfields, Shell sources said on Tuesday.
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Two Filipino oil workers were kidnapped near the Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt in the southern Niger Delta, officials said.
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Kidnappers freed six foreigners Wednesday, including an American boat captain, abducted from a nightclub in Nigeria's southern oil region, the government said.
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LAGOS (Reuters via SwissInfo) - Heavily armed gunmen in speedboats kidnapped seven workers, including three foreigners, from an offshore Nigerian oilfield in a major setback to peace in the Niger Delta. The raid on Saturday night was the first big attack on an oil facility in five months since the inauguration of President Umaru Yar'Adua, who had started a peace process to address rebel demands for more regional autonomy in the oil-producing wetlands of southern Nigeria. "Seven people were kidnapped from a supply vessel to the EA field. They are four Nigerians and three expats," said Olav Ljosne, a spokesman for Royal Dutch Shell, which operates the offshore field. He confirmed that the three foreigners were a Briton, a Croat and a Russian.  All other workers have been evacuated from the facility, which has not produced any oil since an earlier militant attack in February 2006. It had been expected to resume production by the middle of next year.
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Gunmen kidnapped four Egyptian engineers  working for a telecoms company in Iraq, a spokesman for a  related telecoms group said Sunday.
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Gunmen abducted five foreigners Friday in Nigeria's restive southern oil heartland, with at least three of them seized and spirited away in a speedboat, officials said.
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One of four foreigners kidnapped last week during an attack on oil installation in southern Nigeria that all the hostages are &quot;fine&quot;.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian gunmen attacked an Agip oil export terminal in the Niger Delta early on Thursday and kidnapped three expatriate workers, the commander of the armed forces in the region told Reuters.
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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 in speed boats  kidnapped seven foreign oil workers in a raid on an Italian oil  production vessel off the Nigerian coast on Wednesday,  authorities said.
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Four kidnapped expatriate staff members of Franco-American oil services group Schlumberger were freed late Saturday in the south of Nigeria, an industry source said.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen in speed boats kidnapped seven foreign oil workers in a raid on an Italian oil production vessel off the Nigerian coast on Wednesday, authorities said.