Hyderabad: In another terror attack , two Indian nationals were kidnapped from Boko a town in the Benue state of north-central Nigeria, a family hailing from Visakhapatnam said on Friday. According to the reports, Mangipudi Sai Sharma and his colleague Anish Sharma were kidnapped on Wednesday. Srinivas’s family requested the district collector N Yuvaraj on Thursday to consult the Indian Embassy in Nigeria.
Sharma and Srinivas were on the way to their office, when a group of armed men kidnapped them at a traffic signal. Srinivas’s wife M Lalitha said he is a civil engineer and has been working for Dangote Cement in Boko for the last three years.“I tried to reach my husband on Wednesday but could not contact him. I called up the officials of the Plant this morning and they informed me about kidnapping,” she said.
Reportedly, Nigerian authorities had launched a search operation and the district administration had contacted the Ministry of External Affairs and Indian embassy in Nigeria about the development.
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