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Briton Kidnapped in Port Harcourt

A group of 5 gunmen have captured a Briton from his house in Port Harcourt. Mike Welford, age 65 was previously employed by petrochemical company Indorama, but recently set up his own business. he was said to have been alone when he was taken from his house the night before last.

In an escalation of violence, MEND have continued there attacks and last night claim to have burnt down the Shell flow station at Orubiri. However, more worrying is that it has been reported that they have blown up the major Agip/Shell trunk pipeline at Rumuekpe in broad daylight at 0930 today. If true, this is a rather worrying development in that MEND have the confidence to attack in daylight now and they seem to be issuing a direct challenge to the JTF to try and stop them