Gunmen kidnap 9 Koreans at oil base in Nigeria

ABUJA, Jan 10 (Reuters) Militants invaded an oil services base operated by Korea's Daewoo in Bayelsa state in Nigeria's southern oil-producing Niger Delta overnight and kidnapped nine Korean workers, police said.

The attack came less than a week after five Chinese telecom workers were seized by gunmen in another area of the volatile delta, where kidnappings for ransom and attacks on the oil industry are frequent.

''All nine of the workers are from Daewoo Construction and Engineering,'' a company spokesman in Seoul said, adding they were all South Korean nationals.

There were no immediate details on who was responsible for the Daewoo attack.

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