From Business Standard

Gunmen have kidnapped three workers including a Chinese and an Algerian from an oilfield in Sudan’s West Kordofan province, the army said.

“Armed men yesterday attacked the Kanar field in West Kordofan and abducted three workers — a Sudanese, a Chinese and an Algerian,” spokesman Sawarmi Khaled Saad told AFP.

He added that three attackers were killed in a firefight with guards at the site.

No further details were immediately available about the kidnapping, which has not been claimed by any group.

West Kordofan borders the province of South Kordofan where Sudanese government forces have been battling rebels for nearly three years. 

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