YENAGOA, NIGERIA (REUTERS):
Gunmen abducted a Dutchman who was working on an unfinished Shell gas plant in Nigeria's southern Niger Delta yesterday following a community protest, police and a local leader said.
The incident is the latest in a series of kidnappings and attacks on oil facilities that have shut down a quarter of crude output from the world's eighth-biggest exporter since February.
"It happened this morning ... Two persons have been arrested in connection with the incident," said Hafiz Ringim, police commissioner of Bayelsa state where the plant is located.
A Shell spokesman in Lagos said the abducted man was employed by Westminster Dredging, a sub-contractor to the Nigerian arm of Shell working on the Gbaran gas gathering project. He had no further details about the incident.
