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Nigerian navy frees 28 kidnapped oil workers

By REUTERS

AUGUST 27, 2012 01:48

LAGOS - Nigeria's navy said it had freed 28 local oil workers who were being held hostage by a criminal gang in the oil-producing Niger Delta.

The hostages were Nigerian employees of Chinese oil servicing firm Sinopec, navy spokesman Commodore Kabir Aliyu said.

They were kidnapped on Thursday by a gang called the Lapto Marine Force operating around the Bakassi waterways in Cross Rivers state and freed in the naval operation late on Friday, he said.

Piracy and kidnapping are common around the Niger Delta. West Africa's oil-rich Gulf of Guinea is second only to the waters off Somalia for the risk of attacks.

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