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PORT HARCOURT - Gunmen kidnapped a Filipino woman in Port Harcourt in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta, the first known abduction of a woman in the anarchic region.
Police said the gunmen snatched her in a busy street as she was walking between a bank and her car. One security source said she had a large amount of cash on her at the time.
The woman lives in Port Harcourt with her husband, an Iranian national who owns a construction company.
Her abduction brings to 30 the number of foreigners being held by different armed groups in the oil-producing delta. Another 25 Filipinos are among the captives, along with two Italians, one Lebanese and one American.
Resentment against the multi-billion dollar oil industry fuels militancy in the poor Niger Delta, where a fifth of oil production capacity has been shut down for a year following attacks on oil facilities.
- REUTERS
