The Price of African Oil Exploration

Two Chinese workers were murdered on an oil field repair mission in Sudan, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday.

The two employees of Liaohe Oil Field Road Construction Co under CNPC (China National Petroleum Corporation), did not come back on Friday night and were found dead the next day around noon 30 kilometres from their camp site.

Gunshot and knife wounds were found on their bodies.

Four suspects were arrested, and the case is under investigation, the Sudanese Embassy in China said yesterday.