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 PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (AP) - Militants freed one Nigerian and five South Korean oil field workers Thursday, letting the hostages go at the request of a jailed rebel leader.
The workers arrived by car at the office of the regional governor in the southern oil hub of Port Harcourt late Thursday, a day after gunmen kidnapped them from a natural gas plant during the latest attack on the African nation's oil industry.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta first said they would free the hostages only if the government released Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, a prominent militant jailed last year on treason charges.
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