Three Filipino gas workers were released on Monday after 10 days as hostages in Nigeria, a Nigerian regional government spokesman said.
The kidnapping of the Filipinos, who worked for a US oil services company, was one of four separate kidnappings in the oil producing Niger Delta this month.
“The three Filipinos have been released. They are on their way to government house,” said Rivers state government spokesman Blesyn Nwikina.
The Niger Delta is a vast wetlands region almost the size of England which is home to all Nigeria’s oil and gas.
Well-armed criminal groups, some involved in large-scale theft of crude oil from pipelines, regularly attack oil and gas installations and workers to extort money or get other concessions from companies. Reuters