China firm suspends Niger uranium activities-source

Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:50am EDT
 
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NIAMEY, July 10 (Reuters) - A Chinese mining company exploring for uranium in northern Niger has suspended its activities in the country after one of its executives was kidnapped last week, a military source said on Tuesday.

Zhang Guohua, an executive at China Nuclear International Uranium Corp. (Sino-U), was kidnapped on Friday close to Ingall, more than 1,000 km (600 miles) north of the capital Niamey.

"At the company's request, all of its workers have been evacuated under military escort to Ingall from where they will be taken to the regional capital Agadez," the military source told Reuters, asking not to be named.





 

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