KIDNAPPING IN SOUTH-EAST NIGERIA !
Two foreign workers and their Nigerian colleague have been kidnapped in the south-eastern Nigerian Anambra State, police say.
The workers were taken on Saturday and are thought to be Chinese or Korean.
The seizures of foreigners are the first outside the oil-rich Delta, where dozens have been taken and then released after ransoms are paid.
No group has claimed responsibility for the kidnappings - the second in the town of Nnewi in less than two months.
Chinese Embassy officials in Abuja said they were not aware of any of their nationals being kidnapped.
A local reporter in Awka, the Anambra state capital, said that the kidnapped Asians were members of a team of about 40 foreigners building a car assembly plant in Nnewi.
Massob
The police say the separatist group, the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (Massob), might be behind the kidnappings.
The police also say Massob members may have received some assistance from militant groups in the nearby Niger Delta creeks.
In January, a wealthy local businessman Pius Ogbuawa was kidnapped in the town by a group which called itself the Biafran Soldiers.
He was released after a ransom was paid.
It is the first time foreign workers have been kidnapped in the south-eastern Nigerian state
All the previous kidnappings had taken place in the oil-rich Niger Delta region.
"They've seen what the boys in the Niger Delta are doing and they are copying from them," Anambra state police commissioner John Haruna told AP news agency.
BBC NEWS REPORT.
The workers were taken on Saturday and are thought to be Chinese or Korean.
The seizures of foreigners are the first outside the oil-rich Delta, where dozens have been taken and then released after ransoms are paid.
No group has claimed responsibility for the kidnappings - the second in the town of Nnewi in less than two months.
Chinese Embassy officials in Abuja said they were not aware of any of their nationals being kidnapped.
A local reporter in Awka, the Anambra state capital, said that the kidnapped Asians were members of a team of about 40 foreigners building a car assembly plant in Nnewi.
Massob
The police say the separatist group, the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (Massob), might be behind the kidnappings.
The police also say Massob members may have received some assistance from militant groups in the nearby Niger Delta creeks.
In January, a wealthy local businessman Pius Ogbuawa was kidnapped in the town by a group which called itself the Biafran Soldiers.
He was released after a ransom was paid.
It is the first time foreign workers have been kidnapped in the south-eastern Nigerian state
All the previous kidnappings had taken place in the oil-rich Niger Delta region.
"They've seen what the boys in the Niger Delta are doing and they are copying from them," Anambra state police commissioner John Haruna told AP news agency.
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