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Oil rig workers kidnapped in Nigeria



Eight foreign workers on an oil rig off the coast of Nigeria have been kidnapped, the Foreign Office has confirmed.

Six Britons, one American and one Canadian were taken hostage by armed men in the early hours of this morning at the Bulford Dolphin Rig in the Gulf of Guinea, although no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

A director of one of the companies involved in the offshore rig earlier revealed that a distress call was sent out when men in speedboats attacked the oil rig, on which between 40 to 50 people were believed to be on.

A spokeswoman for the Foreign Office revealed it was doing all it could to 'assist the Nigerian authorities' as well as 'supporting the men's families'.

Attacks by militants upon foreign-owned rigs in the Niger Delta have been widespread over the last five years, with groups claiming that locals are not seeing the benefits of the country's huge oil wealth.

Nigerian oil production is believed to have been cut by about 25 per cent in the wake of attacks, which is a significant factor in the current high price of crude oil.

One militant group is the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend), which claims it is campaigning for greater local and national control of the oil industry as well as compensation from foreign companies for the river pollution caused by their drilling.

Mend has previously taken foreign workers hostage and claimed responsibility for car bombs in the country's capital, Lagos, and bombs targeting oil pipelines.

The group is also pressurising Olusegun Obasanjo, the president of Nigeria, to free two imprisoned ethnic leaders.

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