Nigeria gunmen kill Colombian oilman
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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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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 30 people were killed and shops and vehicles destroyed Saturday when a fuel tanker exploded in Port Harcourt, the hub of Nigeria's multi-billion-dollar oil industry and a target of attacks by militants.
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LAGOS, Nigeria -- At least 12 people have been killed in a petroleum pipeline explosion in Nigeria&#39;s commercial capital Lagos, police said.
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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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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Leftist guerrillas shot andkilled a Catholic parish priest in a jungle area of northwestColombia, church officials said on Friday.
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A foreign oil worker reportedly dies in a gun attack on a compound in Port Harcourt in the Niger Delta.
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Dozens of people were killed in a  petroleum pipeline explosion in the commercial capital Lagos  early on Thursday morning, Nigerian police said on Friday .
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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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A gunman who shot and injured three people -- including one of two hostages he held in a South African restaurant -- was killed in a shootout on Saturday when police stormed the building, a police spokeswoman said.
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At least 30 people were killed and several shops razed Saturday when a fuel tanker exploded in Port Harcourt, the hub of Nigeria's multi-billion-dollar oil industry and a target of attacks by militants.
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One hostage was killed and another injured when Nigerian security forces attempted to rescue a group of seven foreign oil workers kidnapped by armed men in southern Nigeria, the Italian oil group Eni said in Rome.
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Gunmen shot dead an Iraqi who worked as a translator for Reuters in Baghdad this week, his family said on Saturday.
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Gunmen attacked a southern Nigerian oil export terminal belonging to a subsidiary of Italy's Eni SpA early Thursday, taking three Italians and a Lebanese hostage and killing another person, officials said.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Marxist rebels killed aColombian mayor while he supervised construction work onWednesday in his small town in the center of the country,police said.
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At least seven oil workers are reportedly seized by gunmen as they lay pipelines off Nigeria's southern coast.