Русская версияFrom Nigeria there are reports that two German construction workers
who were kidnapped last month have been freed. In an email
sent to news agencies, purportedly from Nigeria's biggest rebel
group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND),
says that its fighters had rescued the Germans from the hideout of
another group which staged the kidnapping.
Neither Nigerian
officials nor the German embassy have confirmed any release. The
two expatriate staff of Julius Berger PLC, a subsidiary of the
German concern Bilfinger Berger, were seized last month at Emohua
in the oil-rich Niger Delta by unidentified gunmen. Until the
kidnapping, the firm had rebuilding the main east-west road across
the Niger Delta.
(Deutsche Welle)
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