4 killed in rescue attempt of hostages in Nigeria
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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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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen shot dead a Lebanese engineer and kidnapped two Italians in two separate incidents in Nigeria's oil city Port Harcourt on Friday, authorities said.
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Troops drove out gunmen holding some two dozen workers and soldiers hostage in a Nigerian oil installation Thursday, the military said. About a dozen gunmen were killed.
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At least 40 people die in an oil pipeline explosion in Nigeria's commercial capital, officials say.
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Gunmen disguised as  soldiers killed a Colombian oil worker and abducted two other  foreigners in Nigeria on Thursday in a raid on the construction  yard of oil services company Saipem, authorities said.
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Four people including at least two foreign aid workers and a Somali are killed in an explosion in southern Somalia.
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A British hostage was killed in a military operation in Nigeria on Wednesday which released six other hostages, the Italian foreign ministry said.
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A Briton was among four foreign oil workers kidnapped in southern Nigeria, the Foreign Office confirmed on Sunday.
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Rescue workers try to find survivors after a building under construction collapses in the Nigerian city of Lagos.
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Islamic militants seeking to install a Taliban-style regime in northeastern Nigeria attacked a police convoy, killing three officers and abducting a dozen, police said Saturday.
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Eight inmates are killed when hundreds of inmates try to break out of a jail in Nigeria, police say.
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Gunmen kidnapped a group of foreign oil workers on Friday, including three Americans and four Britons, in Nigeria's unruly southern petroleum-producing region, officials said.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen attacked an oil drilling rig and kidnapped five expatriates in the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria early on Wednesday, dealing a blow to a fledgling peace process in Africa's oil heartland.
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Many people were feared killed in an oil pipeline explosion on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria&#39;s largest city, local media reported on Friday.
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Police identify a British oil worker killed during an attempt to free seven men seized by Nigerian militants.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian militants freed 12 foreign hostages and one Nigerian in the oil-producing Niger Delta on Monday as a prelude to peace talks with the incoming government of President Umaru Yar'Adua.
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Four foreign hostages are freed unharmed in oil-rich southern Nigeria, after several weeks in captivity.