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Britons freed from hijacked Nigerian oil rig
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FIVE BRITISH oilmen are among 100 workers freed yesterday after
being held hostage for four days off the coast of Nigeria, the
Foreign Office said. A spokeswoman said the hostages had been aboard
a rig that drills for Shell, four miles offshore from Warri, southern
Nigeria, and which was taken over "by a group of youths" last
Thursday night.
"The five British nationals are unharmed and we have been in touch
to offer them consular assistance," she said. The freed workers were
taken to ...
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