12 construction workers kidnapped in Nigeria

An armed group kidnapped 12 workers at a South Korean company’s power plant construction site in Nigeria today.

The kidnappers broke into accommodation facilities and drove the workers - eight Filipinos, three South Koreans and a Nigerian – away in a stolen vehicle at 2am local time from Afam power station, about 20 miles north-east of Port Harcourt, Nigeria’s southern oil hub, said a statement from Daewoo Engineering and Construction.