3 oil workers kidnapped in Nigeria
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Three Filipinos working for a U.S. oil contractor were kidnapped in southern Nigeria early Friday, a day after a German was abducted in the region where oil revenue has caused strife between multinational companies and local communities.
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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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Hostage takers released three European captives Monday in Nigeria's restive oil region, officials said.
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Six Russian aluminium workers are kidnapped in Nigeria, and their Nigerian driver shot dead.
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Two Norwegians and two Ukrainians were  kidnapped at gunpoint from an oil services ship off the coast  of Nigeria on Wednesday, the latest in a series of abductions  in Africa's top oil producer, authorities 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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Armed men kidnapped a three-year-old British girl on Thursday, heightening a foreign hostage crisis in Nigeria&#39;s troubled main oil producing zone.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen attacked a Shell oil rig in the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria early on Wednesday and kidnapped five expatriates, police and security sources said.
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The wife of a prominent Nigerian politician has been kidnapped in the oil city of Port Harcourt, police say.
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Three members of Iraqi Prime Minister  Iyad Allawi's family have been kidnapped by gunmen, a spokesman  for the Iraqi interim government said on Wednesday.
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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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Four American oil workers abducted three weeks ago in Nigeria's restive oil region were released Wednesday.
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Gunmen attacked two oil installations in southern Nigeria, kidnapping two senior Nigerian employees of Royal Dutch Shell PLC and two foreigners, security officials and colleagues said Monday.
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Gunmen have invaded an oilfield control  station operated by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria's Bayelsa  state and are holding several soldiers and oil workers hostage,  security and industry sources said on Friday.
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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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Nigeria oil militants say they have seized four foreign workers and threaten more attacks ahead of an Opec summit.
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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.