India urges Nigeria to release abducted Indians

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday met Nigerian President Uman Yar'Adua in Berlin and voiced concern on the abduction of 12 Indians in the African nation. Ten Indian employees of a petrochemical firm were kidnapped on June 1 by gunmen in the Nigerian oil heartland of Port Harcourt days after two Indians also working in the same firm were abducted.