Incident Date:
December 01, 2003
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Unknown Nigeria
Perpetrators: Niger Delta Groups
Event Type: Hostage Taking (Kidnapping)
Weapon Type(s): Firearms (Rifle/Shotgun)
Organization Type: Ethnic,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Business(Gas/oil)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim: No
Canadian Perpetrator: No
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "12/01/2003: All five remaining foreign oil workers taken hostage in Nigeria's Warri region last week have been released unharmed, reported BBC News. The five - two Colombians, a Briton, a Russian and a Moldovan - were freed late on Sunday. The kidnappers, who seized the men on Thursday and held them on a boat freed a Russian and Australian earlier. The captors, armed ethnic Ijaw youths, were demanding the equivalent of US$36,000, but no ransom had been paid. The five foreign workers are employed by the Scottish-based oil pipeline coating company Bredero Price, which is part of Canadian pipeline giant Bredero. Last week, 18 Nigerian oil workers were kidnapped by heavily armed militants but were subsequently freed."
References: 1) Janes DB
2) ABC news: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2003-11-29/nigerian-pirates-kidnap-seven-foreign-workers/1516496
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