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  • Peru says 60 pipeline workers kidnapped

    06/09/2003 11:28:59 PM PDT · by HAL9000 · 3 replies · 176+ views
    Reuters | June 10, 2003 | Tania Mellado
    LIMA, Peru, June 9 (Reuters) - Armed raiders on Monday kidnapped about 60 workers employed by an Argentine company to help build a natural gas pipeline in southeastern Peru, a government statement said. "They are asking for $1 million, high-tech communications equipment and explosives," said a police officer in Ayacucho, some 360 miles (600 km) southeast of Lima. The officer, who asked not to be identified, called the attackers "presumed terrorists" but a government statement described them as armed criminals. The statement said about 60 kidnappers struck at the Toccate construction camp in La Mar province, seizing a similar...