Nigeria: Militants Kidnap 2 Foreign Oil Workers

2 November 2006

Yenagoa — Militants from Bilabiri community in Ekeremor local government, Bayelsa State have again kidnapped two expatriate oil workers, an American and a Briton who work for Norway Oil Services, located on Bilabiri coastal waters.

The incident occurred in the wee hours of yesterday when the youths attacked a ship housing the oil workers along the Atlantic coast off the shores of Bayelsa State, paralysing the oil servicing company, contractor to Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC).

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