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Fatal botched ambush rescue revives spectre of Nigerian upstream insecurity
Publication date: 28 July 2017
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Scores of people have died in Nigeria during a botched rescue attempt on Thursday, following an ambush of an oil exploration team in the country’s Lake Chad basin earlier this week.
More than 10 experts from the University of Maiduguri contracted by Nigeria's state-run petroleum corporation NNPC to explore oil resources in north-east Nigeria were taken captive by masked gunmen believed to be Boko Haram militants.
Reports suggest as many as 30 people lost their lives ...