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Two workers kidnapped at Russian firm in Nigeria
AFP - Sunday, December 21
MOSCOW (AFP) - - Two employees of Russian aluminium giant Rusal were on Saturday kidnapped in Nigeria where the multinational has operations, the company said.
"This morning in Nigeria, in the southern part of Ikot Abasi town, a group of militants attacked a township of UC Rusal's employees, who work at the ALSCON aluminium smelter," it said in a statement from its Moscow offices.
"Two employees have been kidnapped. The company is undertaking all possible measures to resolve the situation and free the hostages."
UC Rusal -- controlled by self-made Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska -- describes itself on its website as "the world's largest producer of aluminium and alumina".
Its operations in 19 countries include the Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria (ALSCON), in the coastal oil-producing Nigerian state of Akwa Ibom.
In June 2007, six UC Rusal employees were abducted, and a local driver shot and killed, in a similar incident, company spokeswoman Vera Kurochkina said on Saturday. Some two months passed before the workers were freed.
UC Rusal was founded in March 2007 through the merger of Rusal, Sual and the alumina assets of Glencore. It accounts for around 12 percent and 15 percent of the global production of aluminium and alumina respectively.
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A Guinean technician checks operations at factory producting bauxite, an ore from which aluminium is produced. Two employees of Russian aluminium giant Rusal have been kidnapped in Nigeria where the multinational has operations, the company has said.
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