LAGOS: Gunmen have abducted four Catholic nuns in southeastern Nigeria's Imo state, police said on Monday, in the latest violence in a region where separatist tensions are rising.

Kidnappings by criminal gangs are frequent in Africa's most populous country, but in recent weeks members of Christian churches have increasingly been targeted.

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