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Indian among 6 oil workers kidnapped in Nigeria

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Gunmen on Friday kidnapped six oil workers, including an Indian, from a petroleum installation in Nigeria's lawless southern crude-pumping region on Friday, officials said.

The latest abduction to hit Africa's oil giant took place in southern Bayelsa state.

An offficial said that one of the abductees was Indian, but he had no details on the nationalities of the others.