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France sees second attack on energy workers in West Africa

09/27/2010
By Eric Watkins
The French government was faced with a second attack by hostage-takers on its West African energy interests in less than a week, after pirates seized three French seamen off Nigeria just days after Al-Qaeda militants took five French nationals in neighboring Niger.French oil-services company Bourbon SA confirmed that three of its employees, all French nationals, were kidnapped when attackers in several speedboats raided the Bourbon Alexandre, an anchor-handling tug supply vessel, or AHTS.The French-flagged vessel was working in an offshore oil field operated by Addax Petroleum, a subsidiary of China's state-owned Sinopec Group. The ship's 13 other crew members "remained aboard, and n...
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