Nigeria: Gunmen Kidnap Two Lebanese in Bayelsa

3 April 2007

Yenagoa — Barely two days after a Scot, Gordon Gray working with Peak Petroleum Company was abducted by gunmen off the Atlantic coast of Bayelsa in the Ekeremor local government area of the state two expatriates were yet again kidnapped yesterday by unknown gunmen at Amassoma in the Southern Ijaw council of the state.

The latest abduction Vanguard gathered occurred at about 9am when gunmen numbering about twenty in three speed boats raided the base of Setraco Construction Company handling the Amassoma-Ogobiri-Ebeni-Ekeremor road project snatching two Lebanese nationals working with the company.

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