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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (AP) - Unidentified assailants seized two foreign oil workers Tuesday in the latest kidnapping in restive southern Nigeria and negotiations were under way for the return of a boatload of Filipinos missing in the area, officials said.
An American and a Briton were taken in the oil center of Port Harcourt included, Rivers State police spokeswoman Irejua Barasua said.
The pair worked for a Nigeria-registered oil services company, Pivot Engineering, a fellow oil-industry worker said. He said he called one of the hostage's mobile phones and a man with a Nigerian accent immediately rang back from that number saying the two had been taken hostage.
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