adminfrom India, one from Russia,” Bayelsa state police spokesman Fidelis Odunna said of the Sunday attack.
“One of the kidnappers called to demand the sum of US$1,3 million,” he added.
The kidnapping of foreign oil workers is common in Nigeria’s oil-rich south, with the hostages often released following a ransom payment. It is however, rare for police to discuss the details of ransom demands.
There has also been a recent series of kidnappings in northern Nigeria claimed by an extremist Islamist group, but those are considered a different phenomenon.
Meanwhile, in a separate abduction case, a French family of seven kidnapped in northern Cameroon on Tuesday were believed to have been taken across the Nigerian border, Yaounde said, suggesting the hostage-takers may be linked to Nigeria’s main Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram.
The Nigerian government said it had placed its security personnel on red alert and devising strategies following the kidnapping of seven French tourists in Cameroon.
The Acting Comptroller General of Immigration, Rilwan Musa told reporters in Maiduguri, the northeast Borno State capital, that the immigration service would operate a stringent border regime. — Xinhua-AFP.
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