New security fears after kidnapping raid in Nigeria
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Militants freed around 25 kidnapped  Nigerian oil workers on Wednesday but five abducted expatriates  were still missing in another part of the Niger Delta after an  unprecedented attack on a residential compound.
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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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Armed men kidnapped five foreigners in oil-rich southern Nigeria at dawn, police and industry officials said Wednesday.
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"We are urgently looking into reports that a group of Westerners has been kidnapped."  SEVERAL Britons were feared kidnapped in Baghdad today on another bloody day for Iraq. via Edinburgh News
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria, July 5 -- Gunmen smashed in the windows of a car carrying a British girl to school Thursday and kidnapped the  3-year-old in the first seizure of a foreign child in Nigeria's increasingly lawless oil region.
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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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At least seven oil workers are reportedly seized by gunmen as they lay pipelines off Nigeria's southern coast.
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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 kidnapped a Filipino woman in Port Harcourt in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta, the first known abduction of a woman in the anarchic region, and a Frenchman was seized in a separate incident.
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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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Attack helicopters battled speedboats full of armed fighters for control of key oil installations. Seven foreigners were abducted from a residential compound, and militants claimed dozens of soldiers were killed. Even by the standards of Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta region, it has been a bloody week.
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With 11 foreign nationals kidnapped in the space of 24 hours, violence in southern Nigeria shows no sign of abating any time soon, despite the avowed determination of the country&#39;s new president to tackle the problem.
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Four more people have been abducted in the Niger Delta, authorities said on Monday, underscoring insecurity in Nigeria's oil-producing region hours after a 3-year-old British girl was freed by her kidnappers.
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Militants in Nigeria's oil-producing region claim responsibility for the kidnapping of four foreign workers.
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Nigeria's president vows tough action after a spate of kidnappings of foreign workers in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
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Gunmen seized several hostages from an Italian oil supply vessel off the coast of southern Nigeria, security officials said Wednesday.
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A Briton and two other foreigners helping to organise Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election have been kidnapped by armed men in Kabul, triggering fears that militants