Ten oil workers kidnapped off Cameroon: company

Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:38am EDT
 
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PARIS (Reuters) - Ten employees of oil services company Bourbon were kidnapped on Friday from a vessel assisting an oil tanker loading crude off Cameroon, a company spokeswoman said.

No one was hurt in the attack, but seven French workers, two Cameroonians and one Tunisian were taken hostage, she said.

(Reporting by Estelle Shirbon)

 

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