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Gunmen kidnap 8 foreigners and kill 2 police in southern Nigeria |
| Home | (The Associated Press) - PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria: Gunmen attacked a residential compound Friday in Nigeria's southern oil region, kidnapping eight foreigners including women and children and killing two security force members, police said. Militants, meanwhile, said they were waiting to see how newly inaugurated President Umaru Yar'Adua would carry out his promises to develop and calm their deeply impoverished region, where the crude in Africa's biggest producer is pumped. The unknown gunmen hit the same housing estate in the main oil center of Port Harcourt from where several Indians were taken last month, said Rivers State Deputy Police Commissioner Bassey Inyang. |