Abducted Indians freed

All twelve Indian hostages have been freed in Nigeria – they were seized by merceneries on June 1 in the oil city of Port Harcourt.

Seven of them are employees of the Indonesia based firm Indorama and the others are members of their families.

Indorama officials led the negotiations for their freedom.

Separately on Tuesday two others named Devashish Kakoti and Sunil Dave – both employees of the firm were freed by the gunmen as a humanitarian gesture.

The Indians were taken hostage after gunmen attacked their residential quarters in Rivers state.

Indorama had sent a Director-level officer to Nigeria to negotiate with the kidnappers.

In the wake of the abduction, many other Indians had been evacuated from the state to the Nigerian capital Lagos.

The Indian High Commission had taken up the matter of Indians’ security with Nigerian Foreign Ministry and National Security Adviser while the External Affairs Ministry took up the issue with the Nigerian High Commission New Delhi.

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