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The Foreign Office has been unable to shed any light on the alleged kidnapping of a British oil worker in Nigeria.
The Foreign Office has been unable to shed any light on the alleged kidnapping of a British oil worker in Nigeria.
There had been reports that one Briton and an American had been snatched from a vessel in the volatile Niger Delta region.
Foreign Office staff were said to be urgently investigating the claims but last night they said they had completed their investigations, unless any new information emerges.
No oil companies in the region have reported any staff missing.
A total of 18 expatriate workers from various nations have been kidnapped in Nigeria since the turn of the year.
Militants armed with guns and dynamite invaded an oil services base in Bayelsa state in the oil-producing Niger Delta earlier in the week and kidnapped nine South Korean workers and one Nigerian.
Such problems have plagued the region for years.