Oil workers kidnapped in Nigeria

A group of gunmen wearing security force uniforms invaded a compound in southern Nigeria and kidnapped four foreign oil workers without firing a shot, police said today.

The abduction occurred overnight at the oil-services firm Schlumberger Ltd in Port Harcourt and the kidnapped included one Dutch, one British and one Pakistani citizen, Rivers State Police Commissioner Felix Ogbaudu said.

The nationality of the fourth was not immediately available.