Contact made with kidnapped oil workers

The Foreign Office says contact had been made with seven foreign oil workers – including four Britons – taken hostage in Nigeria, as efforts continued today to secure their safe release.
Sources in Nigeria have spoken to one of the workers, who reportedly confirmed that he and his colleagues were “OK”, a Foreign Office spokesman said.

The oil workers were snatched at gunpoint from a residential compound in the country’s southern Akwa Ibom state on Tuesday.