Breaking: Militants hijack 4 British national in Burutu, Delta state

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Suspected aggressors have captured four British nationals in southern Nigeria, police and group pioneers said on Wednesday.

The four had been "without giving therapeutic care and religious exercises" in the Burutu range of Delta state, said Chief Theo Fakama, from the nearby Enukorowa people group. 

Fakama said local people were "disheartened" by the hijacking as the casualties had "conveyed help to inhabitants of the group for as long as three years". 

The representative for Delta state police, Andrew Aniamaka, affirmed the abducting, which occurred on October 13. 

"The casualties are of British nationality, two of whom are a couple, and have been rendering compassionate administrations in the region for some time. 

"Yet, lamentably, they didn't tell the specialists of their essence in the region this while. 

"There is an aggressor gather that has been working in the zone and we trust they are the ones behind the snatching. 

"Quickly the activists struck, they whisked the casualties to the inside areas of the brook where we trust they are being held for as far back as five days." 

It was misty whether any contact had been made with the hijackers or the intention in the seizure, he included. 

Hijacking for recover has for some time been a hazard in Nigeria's south, where prominent people and their families are a successive focus for criminal packs. 

Casualties are typically discharged following a couple of days once installment is made. 

On October 14, the Vatican said an Italian minister was abducted by shooter quite recently outside Benin City, which is the capital of Edo state and neighbors Delta state toward the north. 

Delta state chief of police Zanna Ibrahim told journalists in the state capital, Asaba, on Tuesday: "A hostile to grabbing group is now on the trail of the suspects." 

He proposed the snatching could be connected to a current military operation against vicious wrongdoing, which has seen an expansion in troops in southern Nigeria.