AP Worldstream: Nigerian militants release kidnapped German, Nigerian oil workers
Posted 19 June 2005
DANIEL BALINT-KURTI
Militants in southern Nigeria have released two German and four Nigerian oil workers they had taken hostage, a local government official said.
“They were released unconditionally,” said Preye Wariowei, a spokesman for the Nigerian state of Bayelsa, where the workers subcontracted to Shell were seized by gunmen on Wednesday. He said the two Germans were now in the care of their direct employer, German firm Bilfinger Berger.
Wariowei said the hostages were unharmed.