Nigeria: Militants Strike in Port Harcourt, Abduct Two

23 February 2009

A final year student of MacDonald University was reportedly taken hostage before his parents at Mbuoba area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, yesterday.

According to spokesman of the Joint Task Force and the army in the state, Lieutenant Col. Sagir Musa, the hostage was abducted right before his parents at their Mbuoba residence.

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