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Oil workers kidnapped in Nigeria |
| Home | (BBC) - Gunmen have kidnapped three Filipino oil workers in southern Nigeria's petroleum-producing Niger Delta region. The abductions follow the kidnapping of a German oil worker on Thursday and are the latest in a string of assaults on foreign contractors in the region. The upsurge in attacks by militants has reduced Nigerian oil production by 25%. Militants demand more local control of the Delta's resources. Kidnappings have also been used to extort money from oil companies and from the government. |