Nigerian gunmen kidnap 6 Russian smelter workers
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Nigerian gunmen kidnapped six Russians and shot dead a local driver in a dawn attack on a residential compound of the world's top aluminum producer in the southeastern town of Ikot Abasi, authorities said on Sunday.
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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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At least seven oil workers are reportedly seized by gunmen as they lay pipelines off Nigeria's southern coast.
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Unknown gunmen kidnap 11 Nigerian ruling party officials, saying they were not paid to help rig elections in April.
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Armed men kidnapped five foreigners in oil-rich southern Nigeria early Wednesday, the same day the country&#39;s most prominent militant group announced it would end a truce with the government.
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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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At least four foreign oil workers have been kidnapped in southern Nigeria's oil-rich Delta region, officials say.
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Gunmen attacked a residential compound Friday in Nigeria's lawless southern oil region, kidnapping three Asian workers from inside, police and human rights activists said.
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Nine Chinese workers kidnapped from the offices of a Chinese oil firm in Nigeria's Delta region are released.
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Nigerian militants kidnap seven oil workers from a ship off the coast of the Niger Delta, Italian oil firm Eni says.
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Nigerian kidnappers have released six  hostages seized on October 26 from an Italian offshore oil  production facility, private security contractors working for  oil companies said on Tuesday.
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Six foreign oil workers who were kidnapped from an offshore oil field in the Niger Delta were released Tuesday after three days in captivity, officials said.
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Gunmen in speedboats kidnapped three  foreign workers from an offshore oilfield in Nigeria which was  preparing to restart after being closed for 20 months due to an  earlier attack, security sources said on Sunday.
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Gunmen kidnapped six Russians and shot dead a local driver in a dawn attack on a residential compound of a Russian aluminum company in Nigeria on Sunday, authorities said.
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Nigerian kidnappers have released six Indian and Polish hostages seized on October 26 from an offshore oil production facility operated by Saipem, the Italian firm's parent company Eni said on Tuesday.
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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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BAGHDAD -- Kidnappers seized six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country's mobile phone company, authorities said yesterday, and Muslim leaders in Britain announced plans to send negotiators to Baghdad in hopes of winning the release of hostage Kenneth Bigley.