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Article: Indian workers flee Niger Delta after abductions
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- The Hindustan Times
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- June 11, 2007
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Abuja, June 11 -- Expatriate workers including Indians are fleeing the Niger Delta in Nigerial because of unending abductions by militants.
Indian company Indorama, which bought Nigeria's Eleme Petrochemical plant in Rivers State, has said the plant has been shut because 120 of its expatriate workers, mostly Indians, had relocated from the region.
The chairman of the Indorama workers union, Kriss Natty, said about 3,000 people of the Niger Delta employed by the company might also lose their jobs, unless the company got government backing to provide security.
Niger Delta militants abducted 11 Indians - seven workers, two of their wives and two children - from the living quarters of the ...