Gunmen kidnap Lebanese worker in Nigerian oil city

Four gunmen seized a Lebanese worker in Nigeria’s western delta oil city of Warri on Tuesday, the military and security sources said.

The armed men also snatched the Lebanese man’s car, security sources said, adding that a gun was recovered at the scene. The man was a financial controller at oil service company, Nigercat.

“A Lebanese was kidnapped by gunmen at the Enerhen junction this morning. We are waiting to get details of those responsible for the kidnap,” Brigadier-General Lawrence Ngubane, commander of the military task force in Warri, told Reuters.
Reuters