At least 10 foreign oil workers kidnapped in Nigeria in past week
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Gunmen abducted two expatriate oil workers after an ambush in the Nigerian southern oil city of Port Harcourt, bringing to at least 10 the number kidnapped in the past week in the restive Niger Delta region, an industry source told AFP.
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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 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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Gunmen seized three eastern European workers in the latest kidnapping to hit Nigeria's southern oil region, police said Monday. The men were abducted late Sunday in the region's main city of Port Harcourt, Rivers State police spokeswoman Irejua Barasua said.
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At least seven foreign oil workers were kidnapped in a militant attack on an oil industry compound in Nigeria's southern oil-producing delta on Tuesday, oil industry sources said.
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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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At least seven oil workers are reportedly seized by gunmen as they lay pipelines off Nigeria's southern coast.
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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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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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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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Gunmen attacked an oil rig Wednesday in Nigeria's restive southern oil heartland and seized five expatriate workers, officials said.
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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.
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A kidnapped British oil worker was killed and an Italian injured when Nigerian security forces attempted to rescue a group of seven foreign oil workers held hostage by armed men in the oil-rich Niger Delta, the Italian oil group Eni said in Rome.
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Seven expatriate oil workers abducted in Nigeria are in good health and their kidnappers have demanded a ransom, a diplomat said on Thursday.
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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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The United States embassy in Nigeria said  on Tuesday that it had received reports that an American  citizen was among oil workers kidnapped in the southern oil  city of Port Harcourt.
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Four US oil workers kidnapped by armed gunmen in Nigeria's volatile Niger Delta are freed after weeks in captivity.