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 PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (AP) - Armed men seized four foreign oil workers — two Britons, an American and a German — from a nightclub, the latest in a spate of abductions targeting the petroleum industry in Africa's largest crude-producing country.
Meanwhile, two foreign oil workers kidnapped last week — a Moroccan and a Belgian — were released late Monday. Earlier in the day, three Filipino hostages were released.
Nigeria's oil-rich southeastern delta has seen 14 abductions in the last week. Kidnappings and sabotage attacks by militants, who argue that the impoverished region does not benefit from its oil, have cut Nigerian production by more than 20 percent since the beginning of the year. Most kidnap victims in the delta are returned unharmed.
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