Nigeria: Gunmen Abduct Lebanese in Rivers

4 November 2008

HEAVILY armed gunmen stormed a construction site at Choba Obio/Akpor Council, yesterday, shooting sporadically and abducted a Lebanese construction worker in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Vanguard gathered that the expatriate whose name could not be ascertained at press time was said to be supervising the expansion work around the area at about 10 a.m. when the men, said to have arrived the area by boat hit the place.

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