Reportedly terrorists have kidnapped two Indian nationals from Gboko, a town in the Benue state of north-central Nigeria.
Mangipudi Sai Srinivas who hails from Visakhapatnam and his colleague Anish Sharma were reportedly kidnapped on Wednesday.
Srinivas’s relatives approached the district collector N Yuvaraj on Thursday, requesting 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.
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Srinivas’s wife M Lalitha said he is a civil engineer and has been working for Dangote Cement in Gboko 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,” Lalitha was quoted by PTI.
According to reports, Nigerian authorities have launched a search operation, and the district administration had contacted the Ministry of External Affairs and Indian embassy in Nigeria about the development.
