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    Thursday, November 1, 2012

    Foreign Workers Abducted off Nigeria Coast Freed



    A French oil and gas services company says six Russian sailors and an Estonian kidnapped from one of its ships off the coast of Nigeria's oil delta have been freed.
    Paris-based Bourbon said in a statement on Thursday that the men were freed in "good health" and would leave Nigeria in the coming days. The company did not offer any other details about how the men were freed, though most companies pay ransoms to free their seized workers.
    Military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
    The men were kidnapped October 17 after an attack on their ship.
    Militant and criminal attacks have waned in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta after a 2009 government-sponsored amnesty deal. However, kidnappings still take place.
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