Construction workers were seized on Sunday near compound controlled by Italian oil company in Mellitah
Four Italians have been kidnapped near the oil and gas port of Mellitah in Libya, the Italian foreign ministry has announced.
The group was seized on Sunday by unknown assailants near a compound controlled by Italian oil group Eni, which co-owns a pipeline with Libya’s state-run National Oil Company that exports natural gas to Italy. The Italians are understood to have been travelling to the area from the Tunisian border.