Darfur rebels say kidnap foreign oil workers

EL-FASHER, Sudan, Oct 24 (Reuters) - A Darfur rebel group said on Wednesday it had attacked Sudan's major Defra oil field and kidnapped two foreign oil workers.

"This is a message to China and Chinese oil companies to stop helping the government with their war in Darfur," said the commander of the Justice and Equality Movement, Abdel Aziz el-Nur Ashr.

He added they had taken two oil workers hostage, one Canadian and one Iraqi, in the attack on the oil field's Block 4.