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Nigerian oil workers released amid confusion



Eight foreign oil workers kidnapped from an oil rig off the coast of Nigeria have been released by their captors, according to local police.

Police spokesman Haz Iwendi said the six Britons, one American and one Canadian were set free today following successful negotiations with the hostage-takers.

He said that all the hostages were in good health and were being taken to the Nigerian capital Abuja.

He added that their release had been negotiated by authorities in Bayelsa, a coastal state nearest to the Niger Delta rig from which they were kidnapped.

'They were all released in the early hours of the morning,' said Mr Iwendi.

'They are in sound health. They are on their way to Abuja.'

However, a British diplomat told the Reuters news agency that only some of the eight hostages had been released.

'Sadly only some of them have been released,' he said, without offering any further details.

The group of oil workers were taken hostage by armed men in the early hours of Friday morning at the Bulford Dolphin Rig in the Gulf of Guinea.

Police have yet to confirm who was responsible for the attack, carried out by an estimated 20 to 30 gunmen in four speedboats.

Attacks by militants upon foreign-owned rigs in the Niger Delta have been widespread over the last five years, with groups claiming that locals are not seeing the benefits of the country's huge oil wealth.

Nigerian oil production is believed to have been cut by about 25 per cent in the wake of attacks, which is a significant factor in the current high price of crude oil.

One militant group is the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend), which claims it is campaigning for greater local and national control of the oil industry as well as compensation from foreign companies for the river pollution caused by their drilling.

Mend has previously taken foreign workers hostage and claimed responsibility for car bombs in the country's capital, Lagos, and bombs targeting oil pipelines.

The group is also pressurising Olusegun Obasanjo, the president of Nigeria, to free two imprisoned ethnic leaders.

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