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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Most of the dozens of troops and oil workers taken hostage in a raid on a navy base and neighboring oil facility in southern Nigeria have been released, police said Wednesday.
The eight remaining hostages — employees of a subsidiary for Royal Dutch Shell PLC — should be freed within hours, said Hafiz Ringim, the police commissioner for Bayelsa state.
Assailants wielding automatic rifles overran the navy base and occupied the nearby oil facility Tuesday. About 60 oil workers were held captive at the oil installation and an unknown number of navy personnel were held at the base. Most of the hostages were released late Tuesday.
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