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Two Indians kidnapped in Nigeria, family files complaint


Mangalore Today News Network

Visakhapatnam, July 01, 2016: Suspected terrorists have kidnapped two Indian nationals from Gboko, a town in the Benue state of north-central Nigeria.

 

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According to reports, Mangipudi Sai Srinivas, who hails from Visakhapatnam, and his colleague Anish Sharma were kidnapped on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, family members of both the Indian nationals have filed a complaint in this regard with police.

Srinivas’s relatives on Thursday met district collector N Yuvaraj and urged him to take steps for their release.

Sharma and Srinivas were travelling to Dangote Cement Plc Plant in a car from their residential quarters at around 7.20 pm on Wednesday when a group of armed men kidnapped them at a traffic signal.

Srinivas’ wife M Lalitha said her husband is a civil engineer and has been working for Dangote Cement in Gboko for the last three years. Before that he worked with Aditya Birla group in Raipur.

 Collector N Yuvaraj said that Nigerian authorities had launched a search operation, and the district administration had contacted the Ministry of External Affairs and the Indian embassy in Nigeria about the development.