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Gunmen Raid newspaper
offices
On June 5, 2007, two gunmen burst into
the offices of the privately owned daily newspaper, The Punch in Port
Harcourt, capital of Rivers state in the Niger-delta region asking of
the whereabouts of one of the employees.
The two
gunmen threatened the staff with their guns and demanded to see an
employee who was not in the office at the time. They attempted to kidnap
one of the staff, Christian Madueke, whom they met in the office.
Christian fled by jumping out of a window when they aimed their guns at
him. He sustained serious injuries as he jumped down the newspaper’s
offices on the second floor of the building.
The Niger-delta
region has been a hotspot of kidnappings, inter ethnic and cult clashes
etc.
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