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Nigerian gunmen free nine Korean oil workers
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 12 - 01 - 2007


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, Reuters reported.
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, 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.
Hostages in the Niger Delta are usually kept for a few days
in remote settlements accessible only by boat through
mangrove-lined creeks, before being released unharmed after
their employers or local authorities pay money.
One Nigerian and one Briton were, however, killed last year
in separate botched attempts by troops to free them.
Crime and militancy flourish in the delta, where residents
complain of neglect and marginalisation.
Nigerian security forces are unable to control thousands of
remote waterways where kidnappings for ransom as well as
politically motivated attacks on the oil industry and theft of
crude oil from barges or pipelines are common.
Three Italians and one Lebanese employed by Italian oil
company Agip have been held hostage since Dec. 7 in the delta by
the militant Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta.
The group, which says it is fighting for local control of
oil assets and reparations for neglect and pollution, was
responsible for a wave of attacks on the oil industry last
February that shut down over 500,000 barrels per day in output.
But it said it was not responsible for the kidnap of the Koreans
and the Chinese.


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