ABB evacuates Lummus staff following Yanbu terrorist attack.(business & finance news)(ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd.)(Brief Article)

Chemical Week, May, 2004 by Young, Ian

ABB says it has flown all its expatriate employees at Yanbu. Saudi Arabia out of the country following a terrorist attack there on May 1, in which gunmen killed four employees of the company's ABB Lummus Global subsidiary and one con tractor. Two others were injured in the attack. The victims were working on an upgrade of the Saudi Yanbu Petrochemical (Yanpet) petrochemical complex at Yanbu. Two were U.S. and two were U.K. citizens; the other was an Australian citizen. A further 90 Lummus expatriate employees were based at Yanbu. "Other ABB operations in Saudi Arabia are continuing their work, amid heightened security. the company says. The U.S. government advised its citizens to leave Saudi Arabia following the attack.

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