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Gunmen attack compound
01/06/2007 11:26 - (SA)
Lagos - Gunmen kidnapped three people, including expatriates, from the residential compound of chemical company Indorama in oil-rich southern Nigeria on Friday, a senior police officer said.
"There was an attack on the Indorama residential compound. Three people were taken," Rivers State Police Commissioner Felix Ogbaudu told AFP.
He said he was not sure of the nationalities of the three but that most of them were Asian expatriates.
This is the second kidnapping to hit the company, commonly still referred to in the region as Eleme Petrochemical Company, in less than two weeks.
On May 19 two Indian nationals were abducted from the company's premises on the outskirts of Port Harcourt, the capital of oil-rich Rivers State.
One civilian was killed in that incident and another injured.
Eleme Petrochemicals was a state-run firm before it was sold to Indorama, an Indonesian group last year. Many Asians work in the company.
Around 40 foreigners were taken hostage in the Niger Delta last month.
Some 180 foreigners - mostly oil workers - have been seized by militant groups and armed gangs in the region in the past 18 months. Most were released after a few days or a few weeks.
- AFP
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