Date:12/05/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/05/12/stories/2006051221711600.htm

International - India & World

Indian kidnapped in Nigeria

Lagos: Two expatriate oil workers, including an Indian, on Thursday were kidnapped in the southern Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt, company and army sources said.

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``We learnt that three foreign oil workers have been kidnapped. We don't have the details,'' a spokesman for an oil major told AFP. An army spokesman said members of a local community kidnapped the two.

``There were two men, an Indian and another person. I don't have his identity,'' an army major said. Those kidnapped were working for a subsidiary of Anglo-Dutch giant Shell, but the company could not immediately confirm the incident.