9 foreign oil workers abducted
From Times Wire Reports
Gunmen stormed a compound housing expatriate pipeline workers in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern region, kidnapping nine South Koreans and a Nigerian, officials said.
Dozens of soldiers and security guards at the complex failed to foil the latest in a series of kidnappings in the area, said Ekiyor Wilson, a local government spokesman.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
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