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Militants kidnap oil workers

Jul 30, 2008
From wire reports

LAGOS, Nigeria - Armed members of a Nigerian militant group kidnapped eight oil workers, five of whom were Latvian, in an oil-rich region of the country, only to release the captives without ransom later that day. About six gunmen seized five Latvians, two Russians and one Lithuanian during a July 26 raid on the Berger-Sisar, a liquefied petroleum gas tanker on the Bonny River in Nigeria. The men were released hours later and are reportedly unharmed. “They have been released late this even ...


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