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Nigerian militants take German hostage
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published August 4, 2006
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria - Militants disguised as soldiers took a German oil industry worker hostage Thursday in Nigeria's oil-rich delta region, spiriting him away on a boat, police said. Ten attackers in camouflage uniforms abducted the man after stopping his jeep as he traveled to work, police spokeswoman Ireju Barasua said. The man works for construction company Bilfinger Berger Gas and Oil Services Ltd., Barasua said. "We are combing the place to locate the victim," Barasua said, adding that the Nigerian navy and armed forces were searching for witnesses. She said the hostage would be difficult to find in the delta, a Scotland-sized labyrinth of creeks and mangrove swamps. Attacks on oil pipelines and kidnappings in the country's southern Niger Delta have cut oil production by more than 20 percent this year. Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer, normally produces about 2.5-million barrels per day. More than 30 foreign oil workers have been seized this year, three from Port Harcourt.
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