Nigerian gunmen seize 7 from offshore oil facility
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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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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 have seized three foreign workers in Nigeria's unruly southern oil region, police said Monday.
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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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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria -- One of seven foreign oil workers taken hostage yesterday was killed and another was wounded during a rescue attempt that also left two kidnappers and a soldier dead, officials said.
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Seven Westerners are reportedly kidnapped from a finance ministry building in central Baghdad.
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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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Gunmen attacked an oilfield on Sunday in Nigeria&#39;s southern Bayelsa State being guarded by soldiers after nine militants were killed by the army in the same area recently, an official said.
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Six foreign workers seized from a  Nigerian oil facility operated by U.S. energy giant Chevron on  May 1 were all freed on Saturday, the rebel group that abducted  them said.
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Nigerian gunmen kidnapped six foreign staff of United Company RUSAL after blowing up their apartment with explosives in the southeastern town of Ikot Abasi, security sources said on Sunday.
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Gunmen kidnap a Filipino oil worker and kill his police escort in Nigeria's main oil region, police say.
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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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Three foreigners and four Nigerians were kidnapped Sunday from an oil rig run by Anglo-Dutch giant Shell off southern Nigeria, industry and security sources said.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen in speed boats kidnapped several workers including a number of foreigners in a raid on an Italian oil production vessel off the Nigerian coast on Wednesday, industry and security sources said.
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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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Nigeria oil militants take control of an oil installation operated by Shell in the oil-rich southern Nigeria.
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Police identify a British oil worker killed during an attempt to free seven men seized by Nigerian militants.