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| Nigerian gunmen free nine Korean oil workers |
| 2007-01-13 |
| Nine South Korean oil workers abducted from an oil services base in Nigeria's southern delta were freed unharmed on Friday after three days in captivity, a government spokesman said. On Wednesday, gunmen in six boats invaded the riverside base in Bayelsa state and kidnapped the nine men after blowing up part of an office building. "The Korean hostages have been released," a spokesman for the Bayelsa state government said. "They were released unharmed this evening and they have been handed over to their employers." The nine were working for South Korea's Daewoo Engineering and Construction <047040.KS>, which is working on a pipeline project in Bayelsa state, when they were kidnapped apparently for ransom. Their abduction happened less than a week after five Chinese telecom workers were kidnapped for ransom in another area of the lawless delta, which accounts for all the 2.5 million barrels of oil per day output of the world's eighth biggest exporter. The Chinese workers are yet to be released. |
| Posted by:Fred |