Sudan condemns killing of kidnapped Chinese workers
29/10/2008 17:26
The Sudanese government yesterday condemned the killing of four Chinese
workers who were kidnapped in the southwest of the northern African
country.
Mutref Seddiq, undersecretary of the Sudanese Foreign Ministry,
expressed condolences to the victims and their families, saying search for the
missing Chinese worker abducted along with the murdered workers is going
on.
The Sudanese government is investigating the case and striving to bring
the perpetrators to justice.
The government will also go all out to ensure
the safety of the Chinese personnel in the country, Seddiq said.
Nine workers
from the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) were kidnapped from an oil
field near the western Sudanese region of Darfur on Oct. 18.
Chinese Foreign
Ministry confirmed yesterday that four of them had been killed, four others
rescued and the other one remains missing.
The Chinese embassy in Sudan said
they were taken by unknown militants in the Southern Kordofan State, but no
armed group has claimed responsibility for the heinous attack.
Xinhua
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