At least two Chinese workers were kidnapped from a gold mine site in Nigeria’s southwestern Osun state, local media reported.

-Two Chinese Nationals, Messrs Zhao Jian, 33, and Wen ‘m’ 50, were kidnapped … on 5th April, 2021 around 4:00pm [1500GMT], by a gang of criminals- local Vanguard website quoted on Tuesday the state’s Police Command as saying.

The criminals also shot and injured two private guards at the mining site in the Okepa/Itikan village, the police said, adding both of them were taken to the general hospital.

The police has launched an operation to rescue the abducted workers, they added.