Across the World: Nigeria

Updated: 2008-05-10 07:47

Chinese kidnapped

Three Chinese workers from an engineering firm have been kidnapped by unidentified attackers in Calabar in south Nigeria on Tuesday night.

The three people, all of them from the China Civil Engineering Construction Corp, were taken from nearby a company compound, according to officials of the Chinese Embassy in Nigeria.

(China Daily 05/10/2008 page11)